A MEISSEN PEA-GREEN GROUND KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER
A MEISSEN PEA-GREEN GROUND KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S /* TO FOOTRIM OF TEABOWL, IMPRESSED * TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER

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A MEISSEN PEA-GREEN GROUND KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1735, blue crossed swords marks, Dreher's /* to footrim of teabowl, impressed * to footrim of saucer
The exterior of the teabowl with flowering shrubs within two quatrefoil purple line cartouches divided by two flowering branches against the green ground, the interior with a flower-spray, the saucer with insects and an exotic bird in flight above flowering shrubs issuing from bound grasses and blue rockwork, the green-ground underside with two flowering branches and a fantastic insect, gilt bands to the footrims, brown line rims
5 1/8in. (13cm.) diam., the saucer (2)
Provenance
Dr. Paul von Ostermann Collection, Darmstadt-Munich
Sale Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, 30 October - 2 November 1928, lot 236
Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold Collection, Dresden (inv. no. 126), and thence by descent to the present owner

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