Sale 6432
London
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9 July 2001
Price realised
GBP 9,988
Estimate
A Meissen teabowl and saucer Circa 1725, Dreher's to footrim of teabowl, gilder's 54. to both Painted in the manner of J.G. Melhorn with a traveller crossing a bridge in a moonlit river landscape, the reverse with a mountainous river landscape beneath a cloudy sky, the interior of the bowl with a geometric arrangement of half flowerheads, the saucer with two figures fishing in a moonlit river landscape with figures and goats by a camp fire, all enclosed within elaborate Böttger-lustre panelled and gilt puce and iron-red scroll cartouches with elaborate gilt scroll and flowerhead borders
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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Offered in Hong Kong on 10 July, 21.10.63 is one of the largest works in Zao Wou-Ki’s explosive ‘Hurricane’ series — a creative peak in the artist’s career
By embracing materials for their own sake, the German artist Günther Förg broke thrilling new ground for abstraction