Lot Essay
This appears to be a very early example of a scene inspired by the engravings of Melchior Küsel.
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CIRCA 1725
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A MEISSEN FLARED BOWL
CIRCA 1725
Painted with vignettes of a merchant and porters loading a boat before a Palladian villa with ships in the distance and a mountainous landscape and figures in a garden before canopied boats and ships, within elongated shaped rectangular cartouches with Böttger-lustre sections enclosed in gilt scrolls issuing iron-red and lustre scrolling foliage, between flowering Oriental shrubs and scattered insects and birds, the interior with a chinoiserie scene of two figures and a stylised landscape in a similar cartouche below a border of interlocking gilt C-scrolls (areas of wear to interior panel, wear to gilding on interior rim and footrim, areas of wear to exterior lustre and gilt panels, some very minor flaking to enamels)
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1725
Painted with vignettes of a merchant and porters loading a boat before a Palladian villa with ships in the distance and a mountainous landscape and figures in a garden before canopied boats and ships, within elongated shaped rectangular cartouches with Böttger-lustre sections enclosed in gilt scrolls issuing iron-red and lustre scrolling foliage, between flowering Oriental shrubs and scattered insects and birds, the interior with a chinoiserie scene of two figures and a stylised landscape in a similar cartouche below a border of interlocking gilt C-scrolls (areas of wear to interior panel, wear to gilding on interior rim and footrim, areas of wear to exterior lustre and gilt panels, some very minor flaking to enamels)
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) diam.
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