A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1723
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1723
painted in the manner of P. E. Schindler, the teabowl painted on the exterior with a Chinoiserie figure reading from a Torah scroll and the saucer with a figure carrying a deer on his shoulder, each within a gilt, iron-red and Böttger lustre scroll-edged quatrefoil panel beneath a gilt scroll border at the rim, reverse and the interior of the teabowl with a spray of flowers, the underside of saucer with concentric circles in iron-red, gilt numeral 33. to both.
Diameter of saucer: 4⅞ in.
12.3 cm
D. Pergamenter Collection, Berlin, sold, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, May 4, 1909, lot 145
Georg Baschwitz Collection, Berlin, sold, Antiquitätenhaus Wertheim, Berlin, March 25-26, 1930, lot 504 (one of two)
Sotheby's New York, September 26, 1989, lot 35
Jörg Nelte Collection
Sotheby's London, June 17, 1997, lot 15
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 77, p. 303, illus.