An early Meissen octagonal sugar bowl and cover and a teabowl, circa 1718. Photo: Bonhams.

Each decorated, probably in the Funcke workshop, Dresden, in gilding, lustre, red, green, blue and purple, with landscape vignettes with flowers and trees and, on the sugar bowl and on the teabowl a figure in a feather headdress behind a desk, and scattered insects, the teabowl with a gilt band to the inside rim, the sugar bowl: 10.9cm across (scattered wear, tiny chips to footrim of sugar bowl) (3). Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 (€15,000 - 22,000)

Provenance: Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer Collection, Berlin (the sugar bowl and cover)

Literature: L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Franz und Margarete Oppenheimer (1927), no. 37 (the sugar bowl and cover);
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1994), nos. 29-30

Exhibited: Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 14 November-31 January 1994;
Aachen, Museen der Stadt Aachen - Couven Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 26 February-20 April 1994

Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS. London, New Bond Street, 18 Jun 2014 - http://www.bonhams.com/