Three Meissen porcelain tea bowls and saucers from a service with merchant navy scenes

Three Meissen porcelain tea bowls and saucers from a service with merchant navy scenes

Richly decorated with eight opulent gilt cartouches containing finely painted water landscapes. The wells of the tea bowls with bouquets of indianische blumen in iron red surrounds. Blue crossed swords mark (both saucers), incised /, K. in gold. Three tea bowls and one saucer restored. H tea bowls 4.1, D saucer 12.1 cm.
C. 1725/30, decor attributed to Chrstian Friedrich Herold.

Provenance

Purchased at Sotheby's London on 7 October 1986, lot 269.

Literature

Two tea bowls with saucers illus. in: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 19, no. 46.
A teapot, sugar box, three saucers and two tea bowls from the same service sold by Christie's, London, 29th June 1987, lots 266 - 269.