CIRCA 1723-25

Details

A MEISSEN FLARED BOWL
CIRCA 1723-25
One side painted with a merchant and a monument before a Palladian villa with ships in the distance, the other side with courtiers promenading on a terrace before canopied rowing boats and ships, within shaped quatrefoil gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and iron-red scrolling foliage, the sides with indianische Blumen, insects and a bird, the interior with two Orientals in a fenced garden before an island within a similar cartouche below a gilt-scroll border (gilt footrim worn, interior panel and border worn, cartouches with slight wear, some minute flakes to enamels)
7 in. (7.9 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 27th June 2005, lot 142

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Lot Essay

The scene with a palace on one side of this bowl also appears (with slight alterations and reversed) on a du Paquier tankard in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, illustrated by E. Sturm-Bednarczyk, Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Wiener Porzellan der Frühzeit 1718-1744 (Vienna, 1994), p. 102, no. 110.

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