Live Auction 10750The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres
A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
Lot 44

A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 84. TO EACH PIECE, DREHER'S V MARKS TO TEABOWLS

Closed25 November 2014

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 84. TO EACH PIECE, DREHER'S V MARKS TO TEABOWLS
The teabowls painted on each side with merchants on quaysides within shaped quatrefoil cartouches with Böttger-lustre, purple and iron-red panels with scroll ornament enclosed by gilt scrolls issuing further purple and iron-red scrollwork, the interiors with a spray of indianische Blumen, the saucers decorated with an estuary landscape and a watermill within similar cartouches below gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk borders (very slight wear to gilding)

With Winifred Williams, London, from whom they was acquired on 5 September 1980.

Specialist note

The watermill scene with the sun rising beyond is also depicted with slight variations on a teapot and cover in the Wark Collection, see Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection from the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, London, 2011, p. 133, no. 104. A teabowl and saucer probably from the same service was sold in these Rooms on 21 February 2005, lot 39.