A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Lot 635

A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1722, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1724, INCISED DREHER'S MARK TO TEABOWL AND / TO SAUCER

Closed31 May 2012

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GBP 2,000

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1722, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1724, INCISED DREHER'S MARK TO TEABOWL AND / TO SAUCER
Probably painted by Johann Andreas Lauche, the teabowl with a seated dignitary and attendant and a lady waving a fly-whisk at two wading birds, among flowers and willow issuing from pierced rockwork, the saucer with a pipe-smoking man standing by a child, the borders painted in iron-red with shallow C-scrolls suspending pendant husk and flowerhead ornament, the underside of the saucer with iron-red concentric lines (small chip to underside rim of saucer, shallow chip to inside footrim, small patch of wear to centre of saucer)

Specialist note

See Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London, 2011, p. 544, nos. 666-7 for two teabowls and saucers by the same hand as the present example.