A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND A SAUCER painted at Augsburg by Abraham Seuter, the beaker with two shaped reserves with tooled gilt scrollwork borders painted with an alchemist before an explosion in his laboratory and a scholar in his study, the saucer with a quatrefoil shaped reserve painted with figures from the Italian Comedy, Columbine between Harlequin and Pantalone, a cherub minstrel and a dog (the beaker with one restored replacement handle, the saucer with one large and two small restored chips and slight flaking to enamel), the porcelain circa 1720, the decoration slightly later (2)

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A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND A SAUCER painted at Augsburg by Abraham Seuter, the beaker with two shaped reserves with tooled gilt scrollwork borders painted with an alchemist before an explosion in his laboratory and a scholar in his study, the saucer with a quatrefoil shaped reserve painted with figures from the Italian Comedy, Columbine between Harlequin and Pantalone, a cherub minstrel and a dog (the beaker with one restored replacement handle, the saucer with one large and two small restored chips and slight flaking to enamel), the porcelain circa 1720, the decoration slightly later (2)

Provenance

Dr. Kaufman, Berne, sold by Galerie Stucker, Berne, 1963
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 87

Literature

Ducret, (1972), vol. II, col. pl. XII and no. 194

Exhibited

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 7

Lot Essay

These three scenes are taken from engravings by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) best remembered for his hunting scenes. The scene of the scholar is taken directly from an engraving entitled 'Das Gesicht' illustrated by Ducret (1972), no. 193 and discussed p. 22; a beaker with similar decoration illustrated ibid, no. 192 and a saucer, from the Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, with an almost identical scene is illustrated by Schmidt, col. pl. 32, no. 108

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