Details
A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN TEABOWL AND SAUCER, the deep flared teabowl and underside of the saucer applied with trailing fruiting vine decorated in the Seuter workshop in blue, pink, green and gilt and gilt with birds and extended branches within wide gilt line rims with pendant C-scrolls and strapwork, the saucer with three chinoiserie vignettes (chip to rim of teabowl and chips to footrims, some minor rubbing to gilding), lustre llll to teabowl and L and traces of llll to saucer, circa 1720 the decoration slightly later
Provenance
Simon Goldblatt, sale Sotheby's, 2 May 1956, lot 213
Anon. sale Sotheby's, 28 November 1961, lot 130
Anon. sale Sotheby's, 28 November 1961, lot 130
Literature
Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, vol. I, no. 262