British & Continental Ceramics & Glass (Day Two) - 27th April 2023
Lot 478
A Meissen bowl
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1000
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Description
A Meissen bowl, c.1725-30, well painted with Kauffahrtei (harbour scenes) showing merchants with barrels and bales beside tents and ships, within cartouches with Böttger lustre panels and laub und Bandelwerk, blue crossed swords mark, indistinct gilt mark, 17.8cm dia.
Provenance: a private collection. Purchased Sotheby's, London, 8th September 1999, lot 77.
Painting of early Kauffahrtei scenes is often attributed to Johann Georg Heintze.