A Frankenthal chinoiserie slop-bowl

1772

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A Frankenthal chinoiserie slop-bowl
1772
Painted in a bright palette with a pair of Oriental lovers, she holding a parasol, seated before plants and bushes in a landscape vignette with two distant pagodas, the reverse with an Oriental lady, a child and an exotic bird, she holding a fan and a parasol, before a pagoda and among trees and flowering plants, flanked by moths and other insects below a band of puce and gilt umbrellas, bells and hatched decoration, the interior with further scattered butterflies and other insects (minute glazed footrim chip), blue crowned CT mark and 72 to footrim, incised EZ
6¾in. (17cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 6 February 1968, lot 180

Lot Essay

A saucer with similar decoration is illustrated by F.H. Hofmann, Frankenthaler Porzellan (1911), vol. II, pl. 192, fig. 751 and a teabowl and saucer from the same service was sold in these Rooms on 30 November 1987, lot 67

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