A rare Meissen large circular tureen and cover, circa 1735. Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 (€4,200 - 7,000). Photo: Bonhams.

Each decorated with three Chinoiserie vignettes depicting figures flanked by flowers on a gilt and Böttger lustre pedestal, enclosing a quatrelobe purple landscape vignette and linked by iron-red and purple scrollwork, the tureen with a gilt trellis and floral border reserved with similar vignettes around the rim, the cover with a similar, broader band around the cockerel finial, 23.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (restored)

Note: A closely similar tureen and cover, probably the companion to the present lot, was in the pre-War Prague collection of Viktor von Kahler, now in the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, inv. no. 58961, published by Helena Krejcova / Mario Vlcek, Navraty Pameti (2007), p. 106.

Bonham's. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS, 17 Jun 2015 10:30 BST . LONDON, NEW BOND STREET