An Important Meissen Bottger Porcelain Hausmaler Tea Bowl and Saucer, painted by Ignaz Preissler of Breslau in Eisenrot and Scwarzlot, iron red and black, the saucer with four red Galleons at a Dutch-like quayside. To one side an elaborately built three storeyed house surrounded by trees beneath an iron red and black sky. The teabowl with a scene of mercantile and seafaring exchange within The Orient, before a sea laden with eisenrot galleons, before distant fortified coastlands.  The interior with a single iron red and black insect in flight.

This teabowl and saucer exhibiting some of the very finest decoration to be executed by Ignaz Preissler of Breslau. The Galleons could be contemplated leaving the exotic shores of the Levant on the teabowl, surrounded by coastlines rich in aged Roman symbolism that would conjure with the aromas of the steaming teas. The elaborately built bastion-like mansion house alludes to the success of the merchant, the dog by his side alludes to the safety of his home. This without doubt would have been an important commission for a single service for a successful merchant.