Lot Essay
See the similar examples sold in these Rooms on 18th May 1999, lots 170 and 171.
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CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BOTH, THE TEABOWL WITH PRESSNUMMER 24, THE SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 23
Details
A Meissen Imari quatrefoil teacup and saucer
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BOTH, THE TEABOWL WITH PRESSNUMMER 24, THE SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 23
The teacup with an angular handle of lozenge-section and curved points, each side with a Böttger-lustre panel gilt with trellis ornament and reserved with a central chrysanthemum flower, divided at the ends by panels with a iron-red flowering plum branches enriched in gilding and issuing from stylised rockwork below the rim, the interior with a flower-spray, the border of the saucer with similar panels alternating with Böttger-lustre panels about a quatrefoil panel with four chrysanthemum flowers with gilt and green foliage about a central gilt chrysanthemum flower, with lobed gilt line rims (some areas of minute wear to both, saucer with small area of wear to one red chrysanthemum)
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO BOTH, THE TEABOWL WITH PRESSNUMMER 24, THE SAUCER WITH PRESSNUMMER 23
The teacup with an angular handle of lozenge-section and curved points, each side with a Böttger-lustre panel gilt with trellis ornament and reserved with a central chrysanthemum flower, divided at the ends by panels with a iron-red flowering plum branches enriched in gilding and issuing from stylised rockwork below the rim, the interior with a flower-spray, the border of the saucer with similar panels alternating with Böttger-lustre panels about a quatrefoil panel with four chrysanthemum flowers with gilt and green foliage about a central gilt chrysanthemum flower, with lobed gilt line rims (some areas of minute wear to both, saucer with small area of wear to one red chrysanthemum)
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