Live Auction 10750The John Shearer Collection of Important Meissen, Vincennes and Sevres
A MEISSEN SLOP-BOWL
Lot 45

A MEISSEN SLOP-BOWL

CIRCA 1728, ENAMELLED BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 73.

Closed25 November 2014

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A MEISSEN SLOP-BOWL
CIRCA 1728, ENAMELLED BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 73.
Painted on each side with a shipping scene with figures in discussion on a wooded shoreline before galleons within shaped oval cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels edged with scrolls, flanked by sprays of indianische Blumen, the interior with a ship in full sail approaching a quay within a similar cartouche below a Laub-und-Bandelwerk border (minute glaze chip at edge of painted scene, minor wear to gilt rim)
6¾ in. (17.1 cm.) diam.

Property of the Late H.A. Grothe van Schellach of Rotterdam; sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1970, lot 126. The sale also included other pieces from the same service: a coffee-pot, teapot, teacaddy and cover, an oval sugar-box and cover, six related teabowls and saucers and five related beakers and saucers (see lots 124,125,127-134).
With Winfred Williams, London.

Specialist note

A pair of teabowls and saucers from the same service were sold in these Rooms on 8 December 2003, lot 118.