CIRCA 1752

Details

A Chelsea flared octagonal bowl in the Meissen style
Circa 1752
The exterior with figures at discussion among barrels in a wooded coastal landscape, the reverse with a bouquet, two flowersprays, a moth and a caterpillar, the interior with travellers in a mountainous river landscape, with a central tree within an octagonal purple and iron-red double-line cartouche, surrounded by scattered flower-sprays and insects, beneath a brown-line rim (two small rim chips, some minute blemishes to brown-line rim, two shallow chips to footrim)
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) wide

Provenance

The Collection of Mrs. Spencer-Stanhope, sale Sotheby's, 5 February 1952, lot 132.
The Nelson A. Rockerfeller Collection, sale Sotheby's, 11 April 1980, lot 36.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

For a bowl with a very closely similar subject, perhaps adapted form the same original print source, see Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection, 18th Century English and French Porcelain (San Francisco 1995), p. 22, no.14.

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