P166 - MEISSEN BOWL AND COVER

 

Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark

In the Imari taste, painted with alternating ogival panels of flowers among further indianische Blumen, with puce artichoke finial

9 ½ in. (24.1 cm) diameter, 7 in. (17.8 cm) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 190, plate 61, fig. 244.

 

For a Meissen charger decorated in the same pattern within a variant rim, see The Pompey Collection, Christie‟s, New York, 23 May 2002, lot 242.

 

EXHIBITION

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