CIRCA 1720, THE GILDING OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATED AND LIKELY FROM THE WORKSHOPS OF ABRAHAM AND BARTHOLOMÄUS SEUTER

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A GROUP OF MEISSEN AUGSBURG DECORATED GOLDCHINESEN TEA & CHOCOLATE WARES
Circa 1720, the gilding of slightly later dated and likely from the workshops of Abraham and Bartholomäus Seuter
Comprising a large waste-bowl, a teabowl, two small beakers, four saucers, and a larger stand, the underside gadrooned, each gilt with Chinoiserie vignettes supported on strapwork brackets of variant design, the rims with similar C-scrolls edging the burnished gilt border, the interior rim of the waste-bowl gilt with Laub-und Bandelwerk; together with a prunus-moulded sugar-bowl and cover, the moulded flowers enriched in gilt, gilt birds on branches enriching the ground
7in. (17.8cm.) diam., the waste-bowl (8)

Lot Essay

See Sigfried Ducret, Meissener Porzellan bemalt im Augusburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Brunswick, 1971, nos. 169, 172 and 175 for pieces gilt in the same spirit as the beakers, their decoration attributed to Abraham Seuter and 269, 270 for a gadrooned beaker, the gadroons gilt in the same pattern as the present stand, the decoration attribuited to Bartholomäus Seuter,

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