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CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S TO TEABOWL AND ,, TO SAUCER
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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S TO TEABOWL AND ,, TO SAUCER
The teabowl painted with a continuous scene of Orientals on a terrace, possibly by P.E. Schindler, two of them tending to a dead man in black robes, a large steaming kettle on a pedestal nearby, above an double concentric iron-red circle border, the interior with a flying insect below a border of puce and red scrolls divided by clusters of gilt lozenges and by red-edged yellow lozenges centred by blue flowerheads, the saucer with three Orientals bowing and kneeling before a black devil seated on the edge of a cylindrical canopied well-head or pedestal, within a double concentric iron-red circle cartouche and similar border, gilt line rims (minute areas of wear, scratch to insect on teabowl interior)
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S TO TEABOWL AND ,, TO SAUCER
The teabowl painted with a continuous scene of Orientals on a terrace, possibly by P.E. Schindler, two of them tending to a dead man in black robes, a large steaming kettle on a pedestal nearby, above an double concentric iron-red circle border, the interior with a flying insect below a border of puce and red scrolls divided by clusters of gilt lozenges and by red-edged yellow lozenges centred by blue flowerheads, the saucer with three Orientals bowing and kneeling before a black devil seated on the edge of a cylindrical canopied well-head or pedestal, within a double concentric iron-red circle cartouche and similar border, gilt line rims (minute areas of wear, scratch to insect on teabowl interior)
Exhibited
Musée Ariana, Geneva, 1999.
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