Ref: U963
Archive item - not for sale
Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1735, decorated in the kakiemon style with flowering branches and an insect, the rims glazed brown, the interior well of the teabowl decorated with a prunus flowerhead with issuing leaves, pressnummer ‘2’ to inner footrims, with underglaze-blue crossed-swords mark to base, diameter of saucer 5 1/8in. (13 cm.). For a similar example see, Ayers, Impey, Mallett, ‘Porcelain for Palaces: the Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750’, p. 266, Cat. No. 304. SOLD
