CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 32. TO BOTH

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A MEISSEN CIRCULAR CHINOISERIE BOWL AND COVER
CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 32. TO BOTH
Each side of the bowl painted by J.G. Höroldt with two Oriental figures on terraces, one side with a lady seated at a circular table with vases and a teapot, a man holding a fan standing before her, the other with a man presenting an elderly man with a small statue, within quatrefoil gilt cartouches with gilt panels and scrolls edged by puce and iron-red scrolls, divided by branches of indianische Blumen, the domed cover with four vignettes of Orientals and animals on terraces within two iron-red concentric circles and a band of gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the centre with flowers within a raised circular gilt ring, gilt band rims (bowl with some wear to rim, minute area of wear to one cartouche, cover with slight wear, terraces with over-painting to green)
3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) high; 4 7/16 in. (11.3 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a bowl of similar form and related chinoiserie decoration in the Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, see 'The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain' Catalogue (1984), p. 112, no. 113. Also see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 50, no. 171.

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