A MEISSEN TEA BOWL AND SAUCER

circa 1740, the tea bowl painted with a harbour and landscape within gilt panels, on turquoise ground, the saucer similarly decorated with spider-web pattern and scroll borders, blue cross swords mark and gilt “9” to both pieces, the tea bowl impressed no. “68” and “2” to saucer, 13.4cm diameter

Provenance: Mrs Duncan (Clara W.) Hines Collection, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California no. G59.
Christie’s “White Gold”, 12th May 2010, lot 94.
Roy Byrnes Children’s Trust.