An early Meissen teabowl and saucer with gold paillon decoration, circa 1720-30Decorated in Saxony with die-stamped gold appliqués depicting bounding animals flanked by scrolling foliage on each side of the teabowl alternating with a figure of a man surrounded by small birds to either side, the inside rim with four vignettes of a tree flanked by two animals, the saucer with an owl in the centre and a band of floral and foliate swags to the rim, the saucer: 12.5cm diam., incised / inside of teabowl footrim (minor losses)注脚Provenance:With Simon Spero, LondonFor a discussion of this and related types of gold decoration on Meissen, French and Chinese porcelain, see Errol Manners, Gold Decoration on French, German, and Oriental Porcelain in the early 18th Century, in The French Porcelain Society Journal, IV (2011), pp. 24-42. The author notes that such decoration was executed in Paris, Saxony and Berlin, but attributes decoration of this type to Saxony as it corresponds exactly with the decoration of Saxon glass from the period of Augustus III, though the technique could have been in use earlier. Another teabowl with gold paillon decoration, but depicting ostriches, was sold in these rooms, 18 June 2014, lot 37.