A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1730-35. Photo: Bonhams.

Painted in the style of J.E. Stadler, each with a chinoiserie vignette depicting a figure flanked by fences and flowering bushes, the rims with a purple trellis band reserved with chrysanthemums, the saucer: 11.8cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark * (unrecorded) to both, incised / inside footrim of teabowl (2). Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 (€2,500 - 3,700)

Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 17 November 1980, lot 168

Literature: H. Jedding, Meissener Porzellan aus Hamburger Privatbesitz (1982), no. 58;
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1993), no. 59

Exhibited: Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 'Meissener Porzellan aus Hamburger Privatbesitz', 4 June-5 September 1982;
Lübeck, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck - St. Annen-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung', 14 November 1993-31 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/