A MEISSEN CIRCULAR SLOP-BOWL

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S OO MARK TO FOOTRIM, GILDER'S 10. MARK

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A MEISSEN CIRCULAR SLOP-BOWL
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S OO MARK TO FOOTRIM, GILDER'S 10. MARK
Painted in the manner of C.F. Heroldt, each side with a harbour scene of European and Eastern merchants in conversation within elongated quatrefoil gilt scroll cartouches issuing purple and iron-red scrolls and enclosing purple-ground panels with sgraffito scrollwork and diaper panels with pendant drapery, between indianische Blumen issuing from rockwork and banded hedges, the interior with an iron-red scene of merchants on a quayside within a similar cartouche below a gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk border (slight wear to gilding on interior and upper rim)
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Heinz Reichert, Munich, from whom it was acquired on 20 April 1980.

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Lot Essay

The scenes and figures on this bowl are very similar to those on a snuff-box in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, which is signed C.F. Heroldt fecit in black. See Ulrich Pietsch et al., Triumph of the Blue Swords, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Exhibition Catalogue, 2010, pp. 219-220, cat. no. 117.

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