A Meissen beaker and saucer, circa 1725
Lot 83. A Meissen beaker and saucer, circa 1725. Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 (€2,500 - 3,800). Unsold. Photo Bonhams.
Decorated with a chinoiserie scene on each side of the beaker and on the saucer, each depicting a single large figure within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche embellished with iron-red foliate scrollwork, gilt scroll- and strapwork borders to the rims, three iron-red concentric circles around footrim of saucer, the beaker; 8cm high; the saucer: 13cm diam., gilt numeral 26. to both, incised / inside footrim of saucer (haircrack to beaker) (2)
Provenance: Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection, La Jolla
Literature: Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 29
Bonhams. FINE EUROPEAN CERAMICS, 15 Jun 2016, 14:00 BST, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET