English & European Ceramics & Glass - 15 Dec 2020
A rare Derby bowl in the Meissen style late 18th century
A rare Derby bowl in the Meissen style late 18th century, probably made as a replacement for a tea service, painted with harbour scenes within scrollwork borders, blue crossed swords marks, and a London-decorated Chinese porcelain teabowl and saucer, finely decorated in the James Giles atelier with panels of butterflies in flight above European flower sprays, within puce panels on a pale yellow ground, damages, 16.2cm max. (3)
Provenance: a private collection in Sussex.