Rare pot à sucre couvert octogonal en porcelaine de Meissen...
Rare pot à sucre couvert octogonal en porcelaine de Meissen KPF, circa 1722-23
A rare early Meissen KPF octagonal sugar bowl and cover, circa 1722-23
Painted on each side with a landscape vignette depicting Cupid, within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork, each end painted with three birds in iron-red, the cover with two similar views of Cupid in a landscape, enclosed by an iron-red patterned border and a band of gilt scrollwork, gilt-edged rims, 11cm across, K[önigliche]. P[orzellan] .F[abrik]. in underglaze-blue (faint haircrack to one side) (2)
The teapot from the same service, also marked with the rare K.P.F. mark, was sold by Galerie Stuker, Bern, 16 November 1978, lot 23.
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Rare pot à sucre couvert octogonal en porcelaine de Meissen KPF, circa 1722-23
A rare early Meissen KPF octagonal sugar bowl and cover, circa 1722-23
Painted on each side with a landscape vignette depicting Cupid, within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red scrollwork, each end painted with three birds in iron-red, the cover with two similar views of Cupid in a landscape, enclosed by an iron-red patterned border and a band of gilt scrollwork, gilt-edged rims, 11cm across, K[önigliche]. P[orzellan] .F[abrik]. in underglaze-blue (faint haircrack to one side) (2)
The teapot from the same service, also marked with the rare K.P.F. mark, was sold by Galerie Stuker, Bern, 16 November 1978, lot 23.