Lot 7
7
A Böttger blue-ground Chinoiserie saucer
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A Böttger blue-ground Chinoiserie saucer

CIRCA 1722

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A Böttger blue-ground Chinoiserie saucer
CIRCA 1722
Possibly painted by J.G. Höroldt, with an Oriental carrying a tray of vessels in a landscape with a flowering shrub on the right and trees and shrubs growing on a rocky arch to the left before distant mountains, within a slightly elongated quatrefoil underglaze blue and gilt cartouche enriched at intervals with red and pale-brown foliage scrolls and husks issuing from gilt foliage scrolls, within a gilt band rim, the underside painted by David Köhler with a mottled blue ground (restored chip at 7 o'clock, small areas of slight re-touching to gilt rim, slight areas of wear to gilding)
5 in. (12.8 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

The ground colour on this lot is perhaps the earliest instance of its use at Meissen. Although this saucer was previously thought to have been painted by Lauche in the manner of Höroldt, the clear green of the terrace suggests that it was painted at Meissen.

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