A MEISSEN POWDERED PURPLE-GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Details

A MEISSEN POWDERED PURPLE-GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark
Painted in colours with European harbor scenes reserved within quatrefoil panels against the purple ground, the slightly domed cover with flowering branch finial, gilt line rims
4in. (10.2cm) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

See Rainer Rckert, Meissener Porcelain 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, no. 414, plate 105 for a purple-ground sugar-bowl and cover of similar form but decorated in the famille verte palette with Chinese birds on branches.