Details
A KELSTERBACH INSCRIBED PLATE, A TEABOWL AND A CREAMWARE WAISTED RECTANGULAR INKSTAND
Circa 1790
The inscribed plate with a central two line inscription in blue within a manganese and green dot and dash border (cracked across and restored), blue HD mark, 8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) diam.; the teabowl, circa 1770, of slightly flared form, painted in manganese, ochre and green with a stylised chrysanthemum-spray and scattered flower-sprays beneath a manganese line rim (slight rim chips), 3in. (7.5cm.) diam.; and the creamware waisted rectangular inkstand with moulded feuilles-de-choux borders, with two circular tree-trunk containers for inkwells, flanking a central tree-trunk pen-holder, on three scroll feet (one inkwell a later replacement), impressed HD/L mark, 7 1/2in. (19cm.) wide (3)
Circa 1790
The inscribed plate with a central two line inscription in blue within a manganese and green dot and dash border (cracked across and restored), blue HD mark, 8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) diam.; the teabowl, circa 1770, of slightly flared form, painted in manganese, ochre and green with a stylised chrysanthemum-spray and scattered flower-sprays beneath a manganese line rim (slight rim chips), 3in. (7.5cm.) diam.; and the creamware waisted rectangular inkstand with moulded feuilles-de-choux borders, with two circular tree-trunk containers for inkwells, flanking a central tree-trunk pen-holder, on three scroll feet (one inkwell a later replacement), impressed HD/L mark, 7 1/2in. (19cm.) wide (3)
Literature
Karl Schafft, op. cit., pl. 224 for the inkstand