A Meissen 'café au lait'-ground Hausmaler slop bowl, circa 1750. Photo: Bonhams.

En suite with the previous lots, decorated in the workshop of F.J. Ferner, the fluted exterior painted with a polychrome continuous scene of lovers in an pastoral landscape, the interior with a seated lady and standing man flanked by their sheep and a tree, three underglaze-blue blossoms picked out in gilding, the inside border covered with lacework gilding, 16.3cm diam., crossed swords and inverted 'v' in underglaze-blue, impressed 3. Estimate £1,000 - 1,500 (€1,200 - 1,900)

Literature: R. Röntgen, The Book of Meissen (1984), pl. 222;
U. Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan aus einer Privatsammlung (1993), no. 99

Exhibited: 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/