CIRCA 1728, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN IRIDESCENT-LACQUER GROUND TEABOWL
CIRCA 1728, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The interior painted in underglaze blue, overglaze enamels and enriched with gilding with a flower-spray within radiating lappets and with branches of flowering plants and prunus, the iridescent exterior gilt with a bird in flight, scattered insects and a leafy branch (restored footrim chip)

Provenance

With Charles Bernstein, Oakland, California, 1985

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Lot Essay

For a teabowl and saucer of the same type decorated with gilt Oriental figures on the exterior and underside of the saucer, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 48-49, no. 21, where he refers to this teabowl. Den Blaauwen also attributes the decoration to the Augsburg Hausmaler Abraham Seuter on the basis that the figures are similar to his signed work (this was initially proposed by S. Ducret, see Meissner Porzellan, bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Brunswick, 1971, Vol. I, p. 126, fig. 83)

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