A Meissen teabowl and saucer
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND IMPRESSED .. MARK TO BOTH
Each side of the teabowl with an estuary scene with merchants at various pursuits by barrels, packages and boats within ogival quatrefoil gilt cartouches with small Böttger-lustre panels edged with gilt scrolls issuing puce and red scrolls, divided by Kakiemon flower-sprays and butterflies, the interior with Kakiemon flowering shrubs below a gilt interlocking scroll border, the saucer with a similar extensive estuary scene with merchants within a similar cartouche and border, the underside with three Kakiemon flower-sprays, gilt line rims (areas of slight wear to gilding)
A Meissen teabowl and saucer
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND IMPRESSED .. MARK TO BOTH
Each side of the teabowl with an estuary scene with merchants at various pursuits by barrels, packages and boats within ogival quatrefoil gilt cartouches with small Böttger-lustre panels edged with gilt scrolls issuing puce and red scrolls, divided by Kakiemon flower-sprays and butterflies, the interior with Kakiemon flowering shrubs below a gilt interlocking scroll border, the saucer with a similar extensive estuary scene with merchants within a similar cartouche and border, the underside with three Kakiemon flower-sprays, gilt line rims (areas of slight wear to gilding)
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