A MEISSEN (DUTCH-DECORATED) RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY painted in famille rose style, each long side painted with a bird perched on a flowering prunus branch above flowering peony, the short sides with flowering prunus branches (minute chip to one corner of shoulder), blue crossed swords marks inside top rim, the porcelain circa 1730, the decoration a few years later | Christie's

Lot 205

205

A MEISSEN (DUTCH-DECORATED) RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY painted in famille rose style, each long side painted with a bird perched on a flowering prunus branch above flowering peony, the short sides with flowering prunus branches (minute chip to one corner of shoulder), blue crossed swords marks inside top rim, the porcelain circa 1730, the decoration a few years later

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A MEISSEN (DUTCH-DECORATED) RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY painted in famille rose style, each long side painted with a bird perched on a flowering prunus branch above flowering peony, the short sides with flowering prunus branches (minute chip to one corner of shoulder), blue crossed swords marks inside top rim, the porcelain circa 1730, the decoration a few years later
10.5cm. high

Lot Essay

See Stefan Bursche, Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, pp. 237-8, no. 233 for an écuelle with similar decoration

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