Property of a Private British Collector
A Meissen chinoiserie teabowl and saucer, circa 1725-28
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November 12, 02:13 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
the saucer painted with two chinoiserie figures at the water's edge, one holding a pail of water, the other a jug, heightened in Böttger lustre, within a purple and iron-red scroll border with gilt lozenges alternating with yellow-ground diamond-shaped panels centred with a blue flowerhead, the teabowl with a continuous scene of figures at various pursuits, the interior with a moth below a similar border, gilt rims, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised // to footrim of teabowl
Formerly in the the Collection of Cleo M. Scott and George Ryland Scott.
Cleo M. Scott and G. Ryland Scott, Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, 1961, p. 178, no. 95.
A teabowl and saucer from this service, with the same distinctive border pattern, was exhibited in 1999 at the Musée Ariana, Geneva, and subsequently sold from the collection of Max Hoffmann of Basel, at Christie's, London on 21 November 2005, lot 15.
Cranfield University used non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected, a result consistent with 18th century manufacture.
