Lot 841
  • 841

A Meissen slop bowl, circa 1724

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Porcelain
  • 18.2cm., 7 1/8 in. diam.
painted on each side with a large harbour scene of merchants with their wares within a gilt quatrefoil frame filled with puce diaper panels embellished with iron-red and purple scrollwork, separated by branches of indianische Blumen, the interior with a purpurmalerei cartouche, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 71.,

Provenance

With J. J. Klejman Gallery, New York;
Sotheby's New York, 26th September 1989, lot 79;
With Kunsthandel Dr. Dagmar Holz, Königswinter

Condition

In good condition, Very small flakes of gilding to the rim only.
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Catalogue Note

A comparable slop bowl is in the Wark Collection, currently in The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, illustrated in the collection catalogue by Mary Campbell Gristina, 1984, no. 216