A unique Meissen armorial waste bowl from the service made for Clemens August, Elector of Cologne, Circa 1735 decorated in enamels and gilding, on one side with the crowned coat-of-arms of Clemens August of Bavaria, Elector and Bishop of Cologne, supported on either side by a lion rampant standing on a pierced and scrolled lintel, the other side with a pedestal bearing a crossed sword and crozier and supporting the script monogram CA in gilding, flanked by Chinoiserie figures, on the left, a figure wearing an Elector's bonnet and carrying a flaming heart on a tray, a second carrying a basket of hearts and a third with a tray of smoking coals, and on the right, a figure carrying a large palm leaf in his upraised arm and two further figures bearing an unfurled tasseled banner inscribed in gilding beneath a crown Clement/August/C.Z.C./nat.1700/D.16 Augt, all supported on an elaborate Böttger lustre and gilt bracket reserved with an estuary scene in purpurmalerei within a quatrefoil cartouche, the centre of the interior with a spray of indianische Blumen beneath a gilt scrollwork border around the rim edge, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark of four dots for Johann Elias Grund Senior.Diameter: 7⅛ in.18.1 cm
A unique Meissen armorial waste bowl from the service made for Clemens August, Elector of Cologne, Circa 1735 decorated in enamels and gilding, on one side with the crowned coat-of-arms of Clemens August of Bavaria, Elector and Bishop of Cologne, supported on either side by a lion rampant standing on a pierced and scrolled lintel, the other side with a pedestal bearing a crossed sword and crozier and supporting the script monogram CA in gilding, flanked by Chinoiserie figures, on the left, a figure wearing an Elector's bonnet and carrying a flaming heart on a tray, a second carrying a basket of hearts and a third with a tray of smoking coals, and on the right, a figure carrying a large palm leaf in his upraised arm and two further figures bearing an unfurled tasseled banner inscribed in gilding beneath a crown Clement/August/C.Z.C./nat.1700/D.16 Augt, all supported on an elaborate Böttger lustre and gilt bracket reserved with an estuary scene in purpurmalerei within a quatrefoil cartouche, the centre of the interior with a spray of indianische Blumen beneath a gilt scrollwork border around the rim edge, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark of four dots for Johann Elias Grund Senior.Diameter: 7⅛ in.18.1 cm
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