Sale 9148
London, South Kensington
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5 July 2001
Price realised
GBP 470
Estimate
A Meissen bowl painted with a continuous harbour scene of figures and merchants in conversation before a landscape, the interior painted en puce camaieu with a landscape within concentric iron-red lines, the interior rim with further puce panels, remenants of gilding, blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummer 8, circa 1735 (a section of the side broken and pinned, rim chip and rubbing to gilding) -- 15.5cm. diam.; a baluster coffee pot and cover, painted with loose sprays of flowers among scattered sprigs, blue crossed swords mark, circa 1750 -- 23cm. high; a coffee pot and a cover; a hot water jug and a cover; and an Amstel saucer, circa 1800 (damages) See illustration (5)
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