A Meissen teabowl and saucer

CIRCA 1725, GILDER'S 35. MARK TO BOTH PIECES, DREHER'S MARK TO BOTH PIECES

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer
Circa 1725, gilder's 35. mark to both pieces, Dreher's mark to both pieces
Painted in the manner of J.G. Melhorn with merchants among barrels and at discussion on quaysides before galleons and beneath sunsets, the teabowl with merchants smoking pipes about a fire, within gilt quatrefoil cartouches with Böttger lustre panels, gilt scrolls and iron-red and buff foliage-scrolls, the reverse of the teabowl painted in iron-red and puce with a torn page from a calendar, the borders with gilt interlocking scrollwork, the interior of the teabowl painted with indianische Blumen, the reverse of the saucer painted with three concentric iron-red lines (hairline crack to teabowl about 2.5cm. long, very slight wear to gilding)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's Zürich, 21 November 1990, lot 49.

Lot Essay

Cf. the teabowls and saucers in the Kramarsky Collection sold by Christie's New York on 30 October 1993, lot 22, the teabowls have similar calendars although they were painted by the Auffenwerth family.
See also a tray similarly decorated with a torn page of a calendar, Peter Wilhem Meister and Horst Reber, Europaísches Porzellan (1980), p. 133, pl. 185.

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