P093 - MEISSEN GILT-WHITE TEABOWL AND A SAUCER

 

Circa 1722, blue crossed swords mark to the bowl, dealer marks in red to saucer

The teabowl molded with trailing grape vine, the exterior with acanthus leaf tips, the basins of each gilt

Diameter of saucer: 4-3/4 inches

(rim chip to saucer and bowl)

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 188, plate 42, fig. 167

 

PROVENANCE

With Lukacs-Donath, Rome.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” in The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from June 1955 until May 1960.