CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 21

Details

A MEISSEN OGIVAL QUATREFOIL BOWL FROM THE 'CHRISTIE-MILLER' SERVICE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 21
The exterior painted with gallants and companions, men on horseback and other figures in a continuous river landscape with buildings, a monument and a well above a broad gilt diaper band reserved with four purpurmalerei landscapes and harbour scenes, the interior with a bouquet of flowers, below a band of gilt ombrierte shells and interlocking scrolls and foliage reserved with four polychrome quatrefoil panels of landscapes and harbour scenes, shaped gilt line rim (small repaired and restored rim chips, restored crack down one side and across base with associated repainting)
10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 30th April 1983, lot 366
Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 22nd November 1983, lot 209
The Property of a Lady, sale Christie's New York, 27th April 1984, lot 149
Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson Collection, Orlando, Florida, sale Christie's, London, 1st June 1992, lot 47
With Armin B. Allen, London, 1992

Literature

A. Allen et al., Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, Exhibition Catalogue, no. 54

Exhibited

Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, March 1988 - February 1989, Cat. no. 54

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

The present bowl is one of eight recorded. Four bowls were sold by Sotheby's London on 7th July 1970; two more by Sotheby's London on 8th December 1970, of which one is now in the Arnhold Collection, see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (London, 2008), p. 430, no. 180. Another is in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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