A Meissen teabowl and saucer , CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND GILDER'S 5. MARKS TO BOTH, TEABOWL WITH INDISTINCT IMPRESSED OR INCISED MARK

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Lot 14

A Meissen teabowl and saucer

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND GILDER'S 5. MARKS TO BOTH, TEABOWL WITH INDISTINCT IMPRESSED OR INCISED MARK

Price realised

GBP 2,868

Estimate

GBP 3,500 - GBP 5,000

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A Meissen teabowl and saucer
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND GILDER'S 5. MARKS TO BOTH, TEABOWL WITH INDISTINCT IMPRESSED OR INCISED MARK
The teabowl painted in Eisenrot by C.F. Herold with two river-landscape scenes, one with a figure leading a donkey before overgrown dilapidated buildings, the other with figures by packages, barrels and a ship, within quatrefoil gilt cartouches with flamboyant Böttger-lustre panels edged with gilt scrolls and husks, red scrolls, husks and panels of line ornament, the interior with a Kakiemon flower-spray below a gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk border, the saucer with a figure rowing a boat, ships and a dilapidated overgrown arch and tower, within a similar cartouche with the additional embelishment of diaper panels, the underside with three Kakiemon flower-sprays and an insect (areas of wear to teabowl rim, saucer with very slight wear to rim and minute wear to cartouche)

Provenance

Helen Dietrich, New York, sale Christie's London, 12th October 1995.
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Lot Essay

A beaker and saucer with similar use of decoration, but with slightly different cartouches, from the Jörg Nelte Collection and formerly in the Helen Dietrich Collection, was sold by Christie's London on 12th October 1995, lot 78, and an almost identical saucer in the Hoffmeister Collection is illustrated by Dieter Hoffmeister, op. cit (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, p. 151, no. 73. Another teabowl and saucer in the Carabelli Collection is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan' Sammlung Carabelli (Munich, 2000), pp. 198-201, nos. 89-90.

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Lot 14

A Meissen teabowl and saucer

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND GILDER'S 5. MARKS TO BOTH, TEABOWL WITH INDISTINCT IMPRESSED OR INCISED MARK

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