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)
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)