THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER, THE MOUNTS WITH THE AUGSBURG TOWN MARK AND EA FOR ELIAS ADAM

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A Meissen silver-gilt-mounted Goldchinesen coffee-pot and cover
The porcelain circa 1725, the decoration slightly later, the mounts with the Augsburg town mark and EA for Elias Adam
Gilt at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop with Oriental figures taking tea and painting vases beneath fantastic shrubs beside trellises, balustrades and furniture, supported by Laub-und Bandelwerk platforms between gilt band and C-scroll borders, the curved spout and scroll handle richly gilt, the domed cover with birds on branches and with gilt button finial, the hinged mount with cast vase thumbpiece (extended firing crack adjacent to upper terminal of handle, rubbing to gilding of cover, very slight rubbing to tip of spout and to handle and small chips to underside of footrim)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's London, 18th November 1960, lot 7
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 14th November 1983, lot 183
With Andreina Torre, Zurich

Literature

Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I., figs. 196-7

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See Siegfried Ducret, ibid. (Brunswick, 1971), Vol I., figs. 196-7 where the author points out that the Chinoiseries are derived from an engraving by J. Höroldt, which also served as the Vorbild for the blue-ground AR beaker vase, signed by Höroldt, still in Dresden, see Handt and Rakebrandt, Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts (Dresden, 1956), fig. 36.

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