Christie’s roundel
Lot 75

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE TEABOWL AND A SAUCER

THE TEABOWL CIRCA 1725, THE SAUCER CIRCA 1730-35, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S MARK AND BLUE H TO TEABOWL, BLUE 11 (?) TO SAUCER, THE AUGSBURG GILDING CIRCA 1735

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE TEABOWL AND A SAUCER
THE TEABOWL CIRCA 1725, THE SAUCER CIRCA 1730-35, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, DREHER'S MARK AND BLUE H TO TEABOWL, BLUE 11 (?) TO SAUCER, THE AUGSBURG GILDING CIRCA 1735
Painted in underglaze blue with the 'Fels und Vogel' pattern within egg and dart borders, the white porcelain surface applied with a richly burnished gold ground (teabowl with some wear to interior and rim, saucer with slight flake to gilding, possibly with some gilding refreshed) (2)

Specialist note

For a similar teabowl and saucer in the Syz Collection, see Hans Syz, et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington D.C., 1979), pp. 254-255, no. 161.