A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI BEAKER painted at Breslau by Ignaz Bottengruber with Neptune scantily clad in a blue drape holding his triton and standing beside a hippocamp flanked by continuous gilt and brown foliage scroll work entwined with nets, fish, an eel, sea-birds, a dolphin, shells and other attributes of Neptune, the reverse painted en grisaille with water nymphs beside a dolphin within gilt scrollwork surmounted by shells and flanked by water weeds and bulrushes, Dreher's .., circa 1730

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A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI BEAKER painted at Breslau by Ignaz Bottengruber with Neptune scantily clad in a blue drape holding his triton and standing beside a hippocamp flanked by continuous gilt and brown foliage scroll work entwined with nets, fish, an eel, sea-birds, a dolphin, shells and other attributes of Neptune, the reverse painted en grisaille with water nymphs beside a dolphin within gilt scrollwork surmounted by shells and flanked by water weeds and bulrushes, Dreher's .., circa 1730

Lot Essay

Gustav E. Pazaurek, op. cit., Vol. 1, fig. 145, pl. 180 mentions three other examples of beakers and saucers from this service of Gods, one with Amphitrite and a monogram in the Museo Civico, Milan, another with Ceres in the collection of Dr. G. Reichenheim, Berlin and another with Apollo and Venus in the collection of G. Tillman, Hamburg subsequently in the Torre collection and sold Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1992, lot 211. An additional beaker and saucer was sold in our London Rooms, 4 July 1988, lot 19 and another was in the Blohm collection illustrated Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm, no. 111

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