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CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER, DREHER'S .. TO FOOT, INDISTINCT GILDER'S MARK
Details
A Bttger gilt-metal mounted Hausmalerei baluster coffee-pot and domed cover
Circa 1720, the decoration slightly later, Dreher's .. to foot, indistinct gilder's mark
Decorated at Augsburg in the Auffenwerth workshop, each side with Orientals weighing tea and heating water on fenced terraces by a fountain, an urn, a tree and flowering shrubs, within shaped oval gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches enriched with iron-red scrolls, divided by sprays of indianische Blumen, the cover with Orientals on fenced terraces within shaped oval quatrefoil gilt cartouches divided by gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk (slight reduction to edge of lip, section of rim of cover restored, firing fault to lower terminal, wear to gilding of footrim)
7 in. (19.5 cm.) high
Circa 1720, the decoration slightly later, Dreher's .. to foot, indistinct gilder's mark
Decorated at Augsburg in the Auffenwerth workshop, each side with Orientals weighing tea and heating water on fenced terraces by a fountain, an urn, a tree and flowering shrubs, within shaped oval gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches enriched with iron-red scrolls, divided by sprays of indianische Blumen, the cover with Orientals on fenced terraces within shaped oval quatrefoil gilt cartouches divided by gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk (slight reduction to edge of lip, section of rim of cover restored, firing fault to lower terminal, wear to gilding of footrim)
7 in. (19.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 30.
Cf. S. Ducret, Meissener Porzellan (1971), Vol. I, pl. IX for a similarly decorated cup and saucer, and the article by T.H. Clark, "Eine Meissen Entdeckung Sabina Auffenwerth in Augsburg", Keramos 60/1973, p. 17.
Cf. S. Ducret, Meissener Porzellan (1971), Vol. I, pl. IX for a similarly decorated cup and saucer, and the article by T.H. Clark, "Eine Meissen Entdeckung Sabina Auffenwerth in Augsburg", Keramos 60/1973, p. 17.