A BØTTGER HAUSMALEREI IRON-RED DECORATED TEABOWL AND A SAUCER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1725, PAINTED IN AUGSBURG 1730-1735

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A BØTTGER HAUSMALEREI IRON-RED DECORATED TEABOWL AND A SAUCER
The porcelain circa 1725, painted in Augsburg 1730-1735
Painted in variant shades of eisenrot, the teabowl with a figure to the left of a farmhouse in a hilly landscape, the vignette supported on a band of gilt strapwork, a bird on a branch on the far side, an insect in the interior of the bowl; the saucer with a detailed view of hunters in an extensive landscape supported on a gilt strapwork bracket, the rims of both with identical gilt decoration of C-scrolls and dots below a gold band (2)

Provenance

With Newman & Newman Antiques, London

Lot Essay

The finely executed landscapes on the present teabowl and saucer are by the same hand, although executed in different shades of iron-red and with variant gilt strapwork brackets below each scene. The gilt pattern around both rims is identical. The painting is not unlike that of J.G. Mehlhorn to whom an iron-red decorated saucer formerly in the collection of Dr. Andreina Torré was attributed. See A Porcelain Reference Collection, 18th Century Saucers from the Andreina Torre Collection, Sotheby's, London, 18 November 1996, lot 215.

For another teabowl and saucer from the same service as the present example in the collection of the Porzellansammlung, Dresden, this service also with unmatched gilt brackets, see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 114, illus. Tafel 36.

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