Lot 81. A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1723. Estimate £10,500 - 11,500 (€13,000 - 14,000). Unsold. Photo Bonhams.

Each painted with an unusual early chinoiserie scene depicting, on the saucer, two figures with a haul of fish, the teabowl depicting figures at a table with a bowl of fruit, within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with foliate scrollwork in shades of iron-red, the teabowl with branches and indianische Blumen flanked by a bird and insects on the reverse, and an iron-red landscape vignette in Chinese style within concentric circles in the centre, gilt scroll- and strapwork borders to the rims, the teabowl: 4.6cm high; the saucer: 12.9cm diam. incised / inside each footrim (2) 

Provenance: Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection, La Jolla

Literature: Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 12

Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS, 15 Jun 2016, 14:00 BST, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET