A Meissen topographical waste bowl, circa 1722-23 Each side painted with a shaped gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche edged with iron-red scrollwork enclosing views of gardens and palaces in Italy, the sides with vignettes of birds, an insect and a butterfly, the inside with a similar cartouche enclosing a view of a hedge with a statue and trees, gilt scrollwork border inside rim, 18.2cm diam.; 8.4cm high, twice incised / inside footrim (some wear to gilt edge of rim) Fußnoten Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 124; Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 19 November 1996, lot 119 The source prints are by Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur 'Wasser und Sprtzwerkh, in dem Garten deß Card. Aldobrandi zu Frascati'; Lust gang deß Princ; Mattej in Florenz; 'Mercurius und Flora Statuae vor dem Eingang in den garten deß Duca di Sora zu Frascati'; nos. 12, 2 and 7, respectively, in the series 'Unterschiedliche Prospecten', 1681. The first print in the Meissen manufactory archive, is illustrated by C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, vol. II (2018), no. 19.
A Meissen topographical waste bowl, circa 1722-23 Each side painted with a shaped gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche edged with iron-red scrollwork enclosing views of gardens and palaces in Italy, the sides with vignettes of birds, an insect and a butterfly, the inside with a similar cartouche enclosing a view of a hedge with a statue and trees, gilt scrollwork border inside rim, 18.2cm diam.; 8.4cm high, twice incised / inside footrim (some wear to gilt edge of rim) Fußnoten Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 124; Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 19 November 1996, lot 119 The source prints are by Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur 'Wasser und Sprtzwerkh, in dem Garten deß Card. Aldobrandi zu Frascati'; Lust gang deß Princ; Mattej in Florenz; 'Mercurius und Flora Statuae vor dem Eingang in den garten deß Duca di Sora zu Frascati'; nos. 12, 2 and 7, respectively, in the series 'Unterschiedliche Prospecten', 1681. The first print in the Meissen manufactory archive, is illustrated by C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, vol. II (2018), no. 19.
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