A MEISSEN BERGLEUTE ARCHED RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY AND COVER painted by Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer, the large sides with a miner in an AR monogrammed cap pointing to a pile of nuggets at his feet beneath a sundial together with a woman and an attendant, the reverse with three figures sifting and washing nuggets by a barrel, the small sides with a miner coiling a rope beside a bucket and pickaxe and with another miner in a landscape vignette his axe over his shoulder beneath a interlocking gilt scrolling foliage border, the shoulder with scattered flowers, the domed cover with a further miner and with pink carnation finial (finial damaged), gilder's 7. to base and cover, circa 1740

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A MEISSEN BERGLEUTE ARCHED RECTANGULAR TEA-CADDY AND COVER painted by Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer, the large sides with a miner in an AR monogrammed cap pointing to a pile of nuggets at his feet beneath a sundial together with a woman and an attendant, the reverse with three figures sifting and washing nuggets by a barrel, the small sides with a miner coiling a rope beside a bucket and pickaxe and with another miner in a landscape vignette his axe over his shoulder beneath a interlocking gilt scrolling foliage border, the shoulder with scattered flowers, the domed cover with a further miner and with pink carnation finial (finial damaged), gilder's 7. to base and cover, circa 1740
12.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar example sold Christie's Geneva, 13 November 1989, lot 126; and in these Rooms, 21 February 1964, lot 119

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