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Pair Meissen Saucers
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1725
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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Germany
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Description
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An early pair of Meissen saucers, painted with full detailed harbour scenes in a colourful palette within elaborate scrolling ‘laub and bandelwerk’ with Böttger lustre, iron red rings on the reverse.
There are no marks, but there is an x in each inner foot-rim for the Dreher's mark.
Provenance: Ryland Scott collection.
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Condition
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Very small area of rubbing to the painting touched in.
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Literature
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In the exhibition catalogue, Triumph of the Crossed Swords, to celebrate 300 years of Meissen, Ulrich Pietsch discussed these early landscape harbour views on a whole tea set p. 213, Cat No. 101.
Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 190, plate 59, fig. 234.
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