CIRCA 1723-25, DREHER'S MARK TO BOTH

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1723-25, DREHER'S MARK TO BOTH
Painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, the teabowl with an Oriental seated at a drum-shaped tea-table within a gilt quatrefoil cartouche enclosing Böttger-lustre panels and red scrolls, the reverse with indianische Blumen, the saucer two Oriental gardeners, one watering plants, the other pruning, within a similar cartouche and border (very small footrim chip to teabowl, slight wear to enamels of kneeling figure on saucer, minute wear to gilding)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 28th June 1976, lot 129 (part)
With Charles Bernstein, Oakland, California, 1986

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

All three of the figures on this lot appear in Höroldt's Schulz Codex; the figure on the teabowl appears on sheet 10, the figure with the watering-can on sheet 83 and the pruning figure on sheet 108. See pp. 20-21 for details of these subjects and their corresponding Schulz Codex sheets.

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