A Meissen sugar bowl and cover, circa 1735-40

Each side painted with a European landscape scene depicting a Kauffahrtei scene of merchants and their wares by a quayside, and travellers and buildings in a landscape, within a gilt cartouche of scrollwork and trellis panels edged with colourful scrollwork, a sprig of indianische Blumen to the sides, the cover with two vignettes depicting a Winter and a Kauffahrtei scene within a band of gilt scrollwork, a sprig of indianische Blumen within the moulded rim at the top, gilt-edged rims, 12.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 13. to both (gilding flaking) (minor flaking to giding) (2)

Provenance:
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain