Ref: W77
Archive item - not for sale
A Meissen teabowl and saucer, circa 1740, the exterior of the teabowl painted with a continuous scene of figures strolling in a garden, a ruined classical landscape and labourers beside the water’s edge; the interior with a traveler and rustic dwelling with leaning pine tree; the saucer similarly decorated with a couple in a rural landscape, within concentric iron-red line bands and Laub-und-Bandlewerk borders; underglaze blue crossed swords, gilder’s mark 5Z to base of teabowl and saucer, Dreher's impressed mark K to teabowl, SOLD
Dimensions:
Diameter of saucer: 5 1/8in. (13cm.), diameter of teabowl: 3 1/8in. (8cm.),
Condition:
condition: chip to teabowl, chip and hairline to rim of saucer
