CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 61., DREHER'S TO FOOTRIMS

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A MEISSEN EISENROT TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 61., DREHER'S TO FOOTRIMS
Exquisitely painted in Eisenrot, possibly by C.F. Herold, the teabowl with a continuous wooded landscape with a group of figures before distant hills and buildings above a double concentric line border and gilt band footrim, the interior with a chequered and flowerhead medallion below a broad gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk border, the saucer with figures in an extensive river landscape, within a double concentric line cartouche and a similar border, the underside with three sprays of indianische Blumen, gilt band rims (very minor wear to rim of teabowl)

Provenance

With J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York
Van Slyke Collection, sale Sotheby's New York, 26th September 1989, lot 81
With Segal, Basel, from whom it was acquired in 1993.

Literature

D. Hoffmeister, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, p. 150.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

See D. Hoffmeister, ibid., pp. 150-152 for the teabowl and saucer now in the Hoffmeister Collection which is from the same service as the present lot, and where he points out the rarity of services decorated in red. He cites the teapot and two teabowls and saucers sold in these Rooms on 6th October 1980 (lots 167 and 168) which had similar broad gilt borders and were decorated in red, but were from a different service.

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