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Antique Meissen Porcelain Pair of Cachepots Jardinières with Saucers, Watteau Scenes, 19th Century
A pair of antique Meissen porcelain cachepots with matching saucers, dating from the second half of the 19th century. Each cachepot has a soft green ground with hand-painted purple camaieu scenes of elegant figures in a park landscape, framed by gilt cartouches. The upper and lower borders are decorated with delicate gilt ornament, with further gilding to the rims.
Marked underneath in underglaze blue. The decoration belongs to the historic Meissen tradition of so-called Watteau scenes, a subject used by the manufactory since the 18th century and revived extensively during the 19th century. Comparable 19th-century Meissen pieces with Watteau decoration are documented at major European auction houses.
Height approximately 16 cm, diameter approximately 16 cm. Both original saucers are present.
very good condition. Traces of use and age-related wear, particularly to the gilding and around the saucers, visible in the photographs.
