CIRCA 1740-50

Details

A FAMILLE ROSE 'MEISSEN-STYLE' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1740-50
Enamelled in an oval cartouche with two men sawing planks of wood raised on trestle tables, two female companions seated under a tree to their side, below a narrow gilt and sepia scrolling foliage band at the rim

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 and 27 June 1967, lot 395 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no.J-2).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This scene is after an engraving by S. Le Clerc of circa 1685. A saucer with the same central scene is illustrated Hervouët and Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p.352, fig.15.38.

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