A MEISSEN WASTE-BOWL

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND GILT 29

Details
A MEISSEN WASTE-BOWL
Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark and gilt 29
Painted in the manner of B.G. Huer, the basin in Purpurmalerei with an Italianate landscape, the rim gilt with Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the exterior in colours with harbors within distinctive gilt and Bttger lustre cartouches forming a baldachino suspending tassels and enriched in purple and iron-red alternate with bouquets of indianische Blumen
6in. (17.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Similar cartouches occur on a service formerly in the Korthaus Collection; Christie's, London, 21 September 1992, lots 52-63.