A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723
Each finely painted with a chinoiserie scene within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with iron-red scrollwork and B?ttger lustre, the saucer depicting a seated woman holding a baby on a table and a man wearing feather headdress holding a bird, the teabowl with a figure holding a tray with teawares attended by another with a parasol, the reverse with flowering branches issuing from the rim flanked by a bird and an insect, the interior with a flower spray within concentric iron-red circles, gilt bands to the rims, incised / inside footrim of saucer (faint haircrack to rim of saucer, minor wear to gilding) (2)
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Provenance:Private Collection, Switzerland, sold by Galerie Stuker, Bern, 16 November 1978, lots 38/39 (part)