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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN TEABOWL AND SAUCER AND 'SELADON' GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
Lot 32 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. LARRY AYRES

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN TEABOWL AND SAUCER AND 'SELADON' GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 10 TO THE CUP

Closed19 April 2012

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN TEABOWL AND SAUCER AND 'SELADON' GROUND SUGAR-BOWL AND COVER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 10 TO THE CUP
Each in the Kakiemon style and palette with cranes standing and in flight before bamboo trellis and scattered foliage and flowering prunus branches, with dark brown rims
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) wide, the sugar-bowl (4)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 2005, sale 7099, lot 229 (the sugar-bowl and cover).
Otto Höffer Collection; Christie's, London, 5 July 2004, lot 51 (the teabowl and saucer).

Specialist note

For an identical treatment of this subject, see the saucer in the Hans Syz Collection illustrated by J. Jefferson Miller, et. al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 80; the teabowl and saucer sold Christie's, London, 8 July 2002, lot 62; and the teapot and cover sold Sotheby's, London, 7 June 1999, lot 29.