A MEISSEN FLARED BOWL
CIRCA 1723-25
One side painted with a merchant and a monument before a Palladian villa with ships in the distance, the other side with courtiers promenading on a terrace before canopied rowing boats and ships, within shaped quatrefoil gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and iron-red scrolling foliage, the sides with indianische Blumen, insects and a bird, the interior with two Orientals in a fenced garden before an island within a similar cartouche below a gilt-scroll border (gilt footrim worn, interior panel and border worn, cartouches with slight wear, some minute flakes to enamels)
7 in. (7.9 cm.) diam.
A MEISSEN FLARED BOWL
CIRCA 1723-25
One side painted with a merchant and a monument before a Palladian villa with ships in the distance, the other side with courtiers promenading on a terrace before canopied rowing boats and ships, within shaped quatrefoil gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and iron-red scrolling foliage, the sides with indianische Blumen, insects and a bird, the interior with two Orientals in a fenced garden before an island within a similar cartouche below a gilt-scroll border (gilt footrim worn, interior panel and border worn, cartouches with slight wear, some minute flakes to enamels)
7 in. (7.9 cm.) diam.
