CIRCA 1726-28, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS AND DREHER'S / MARKS TO BOTH PIECES

A slop-bowl from this distinctive service is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and is illustrated by Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 77, no. 38, where other surviving examples are noted. The same slop-bowl, together with the engraving by Jeremias Wolff (1663-1724) after Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) that served as the source for the shipping scene, is illustrated by Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord: Meissener porzellanmalerei und ihre grafischen vorlagen, Vol. II, Dresden, 2018, p. 53, no. 36a (bowl) and p. 52, no. 36 (engraving). A teabowl and a sugar box and cover from this service now in the Gutter Collection, San Francisco, are illustrated by Maria Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit, The Malcolm D. Gutter Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, San Francisco, 2018, pp. 122-125, nos. 36 and 37.