English and European Ceramics and Glass - 16th June 2021
Lot 446
A rare Meissen hausmaler bowl c.1720-25
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £3200
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Description
A rare Meissen hausmaler bowl c.1720-25, painted with a kneeling African figure holding out a bowl to a woman in Chinese robes, the reverse with two Chinese scholars discussing an unfurled scroll, between flowering plants, the bowl's interior with a child holding a bird on a stick beside a watchful parent, cracked, 16.5cm.
Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Kate Foster (1938-2020).
Cf. Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissner Porzellanmalerei und ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, 2108, Vol 2. P.112, pl. 82 for the design, which is taken from a print by Abraham II Drewntwett. The designs also appear in the Schultz Codex, no.68a.