A rare Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30

Decorated in the workshop of Ignaz Preissler, Kronstadt (Bohemia), each with a harbour scene with the ships, figures, land and buildings in iron-red and the water and sky in black, the details sketched in a sgraffito technique through the enamel, the saucer: 12.5cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.5cm high (2)

Provenance:
Private Collection, Switzerland (sold at Christie's London, 11 December 2007, lot 80);
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain

Similar scenes, including the same fortified tower and arch-bridge, are on a series of faience plates decorated in black monochrome with harbour scenes and armorials in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (A. Müller-Hofstede, Der schlesisch-böhmische Hausmaler Ignaz Preißler, in Keramos 100 (1983), ill. 54, attributed to Preissler). A teapot decorated with a view of Paris in the same technique using iron-red and black is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (C.75&A-1939, published by A. Müller-Hofstede, Der schlesisch-bömische Hausmaler Ignaz Preissler, in Keramos 100 (1983), ill. 49), and a bowl is in the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts (published by H. Brozkova (ed.), Daniel a Ignac Preisslerové (2009), no. 77).