(2) Large Meissen Style Porcelain Covered Bowl & Underplate

Lot description

(lot of 2) Large Meissen style parcel-gilt porcelain covered bowl on underplate, with slightly-varied marks underfoot, comprising: (1) covered bowl, having domed lid with figural finial, modeled as a putto seated on a French dolphin, over tapering body with basketweave trim, hand-painted reserves depicting figural village scenes, among polychrome flowers and insect motifs, cover with small chips at underside of rim, finial with typical minute chips to flowers, bowl: approx 17"h, 12.5"diam; (1) matching underplate: approx 17.5"diam; 24.25lbs total Provenance: Dallas, Texas: When the madness of collecting collides with connoisseurship