A MEISSEN OGIVAL BOWL FROM THE CHRISTIE-MILLER SERVICE, the exterior painted with equestrian and other figures at discussion and promenading in a mountainous, wooded village landscape including a church and monument, the lower part gilt with trellis-pattern and reserved with quatrefoil puce camaieu harbour scenes and landscape, the interior with deutsche Blumen within a gitterwerk border enclosing coloured panels of figures in landscapes (crack down one side and across the base, restored and with areas of re-painting), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 21, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN OGIVAL BOWL FROM THE CHRISTIE-MILLER SERVICE, the exterior painted with equestrian and other figures at discussion and promenading in a mountainous, wooded village landscape including a church and monument, the lower part gilt with trellis-pattern and reserved with quatrefoil puce camaieu harbour scenes and landscape, the interior with deutsche Blumen within a gitterwerk border enclosing coloured panels of figures in landscapes (crack down one side and across the base, restored and with areas of re-painting), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 21, circa 1740
26cm. wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's New York, 27 April 1984, lot 149

Exhibited

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 54

Lot Essay

One of the bowls from this service bears the date 1740 on a signpost. The scenes are taken from engravings by Melchior Küssel after Johann Wilhelm Bauer

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