A rare early Meissen underglaze-blue-ground saucer, circa 1722
Painted with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure standing by birds perched on a tree, trees and a building in the distance, within a shaped gilt and underglaze-blue quatrelobe cartouche edged with iron-red foliate scrollwork, gilt-edged rim, the reverse of the rim with an underglaze-blue ground, 13cm across (restuck rim section, small chips to footrim)
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Provenance:Anon. sale in these Rooms, 15 June 2016, lot 84Only a handful of comparable examples with underglaze-blue ground are recorded: three beakers and saucers, and a single beaker, from a different service are in the Wark Collection, the Stout Collection, a private collection and the Historisches Museum, Bern (formerly - with its saucer - in the Baron von Born Collection, Budapest, no. 111), respectively (see U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection (2011), no. 110; C. Nelson/L. Roberts, A History of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain The Warda Stevens Stout Collection (2013), cat. no. 19; U. Pietsch/C. Banz, Triumph der blauen Schwerter (2010), no. 47).