Lot 144. A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1725; the saucer: 13cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.4cm high. Sold for £1,664. © Bonhams 2024

Painted in the manner of P.E. Schindler, the saucer with a chinoiserie scene depicting a figure flanked by a tree and rockwork and a table with objects, within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork, the teabowl with two similar cartouches and a circular medallion with flowering branches issuing from rockwork and a fence on the inside, gilt scrollwork borders to rims, gilt numeral 77. to both, each with / incised inside footrim (2)

Provenance: Private Collection, London (assembled during the 1950s and 1960s);
Thence by descent

Lot 145. A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1725; the saucer: 12.5cm diam.; the teabowl: 5cm high. Sold for £1,920. © Bonhams 2024

Each painted with a chinoiserie scene in the manner of J.E. Schindler, the saucer with a figure holding a parasol and smoking box, the teabowl with a figure poking a brazier, within a qilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edges with scrollwork in shades of iron-red, the reverse of the teabowl with flowering branches hanging from the rim and the inside with a circular medallion with flowers inside, gilt scrollwork borders to the rims, gilt numeral 9. to both, incised x inside footrim of saucer (very minor wear, minute chips to rim of teabowl) (2)

Provenance: Private Collection, London (assembled during the 1950s and 1960s);
Thence by descent

Lot 146. A Meissen scent flask, circa 1725-30; the saucer: 12.5cm diam.; the teabowl: 9.3cm high overall. Sold for £10,880. © Bonhams 2024

Of flattened ovoid form moulded with a female mask on each side, the neck and lower body moulded with fluted bands heightened in gilding and iron-red, painted on each side with a chinoiserie scene depicting two large figures, mounted with a gilt-metal stopper attached by a chain.

Provenance: Said Marouf Collection, sold in these Rooms, 5 December 2012, lot 8.

Literature: Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 23.

Bonhams. 500 Years of European Ceramics including the Twinight Collection, London, New Bond Street, 4 July 2024