CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND DREHER'S TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND DREHER'S TO FOOTRIM
Painted by Johann Gregor Höroldt with half-length figures, one side with a figure holding a tray and placing a gilt cube on a stand, the other with an old lady holding up a tray with teawares before a child, within shaped gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and iron-red, purple and yellow foliage scrolls, the interior with a circular chequered medallion with flowerheads below a band of gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk, gilt line rim

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's London, 5th December 1994, lot 173.

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Lot Essay

Other pieces from the service were sold in the same 5th December 1994 sale; two teabowls (lots 174 and 175), and a pair of beakers and saucers (lot 172) now in the Hoffmeister Collection. For the beakers and saucers, see D. Hoffmeister, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, nos. 30-31, along with another beaker and saucer (no. 29). Other pieces were sold in these Rooms on 5th October 1981, lots 147-156. A pair of beakers and saucers in Florida are illustrated by Mary Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), no. 16. See also Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, p. 52, nos. 37-38 for a pair of teabowls and saucers.

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