A Meissen Bowl, Circa 1723-4
Lot Closed
July 1, 12:36 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Bowl, Circa 1723-4
painted and lustred in the manner of Johann Ehrenfried Stadler with a fisherman in landscape and a bird below flowers issuing from stylized rockwork, the interior with a similar vignette of a fisherman within iron-red double concentric circles and a border of demi-flowerheads and pendant leaf drops
6 11/16 in., 17 cm. diameter, 8 cm. high
Eine Kumme, Meissener Porzellan, um 1723-4
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck St. Annen-Museum, 14 November 1993-31 January 1994.
Museen der Stadt Aachen, Couven Museum, 26 February 1994-30 April 1994.
Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellanaus einer Privatsammlung, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, 1993, pp. 70-1, no. 56.
A very similar teapot and a teabowl and saucer, painted with this pattern, though without the figure of a fisherman, are in the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig, illustrated in Dieter Gielke, Meissener Porzellan des 18. und. 19. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig, 2003, p. 101, Kat. nos. 51-52.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.
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