Live Auction 5448Christie's Interiors
A MEISSEN POWDERED RED-GROUND SAUCER
Lot 559

A MEISSEN POWDERED RED-GROUND SAUCER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 4

Closed22 March 2011

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A MEISSEN POWDERED RED-GROUND SAUCER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 4
Painted with an extensive river landscape with a ruined tower within concentric iron-red lines

Dr. William Harbeson Philadelphia, sold Parke Bernet Galleries, New
York, 4 April 1972, lot ?
A Porcelain Reference Collection: 18th Century Saucers from the Andreina Torre Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 18 November 1996, lot 69

Specialist note

For a discussion of red-ground wares see Malcolm Gutter, 'Meissen Red-Ground Wares', The Antique Collector, Feburary 1989, pp. 30ff.