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A Böttger teabowl
Lot 13

A Böttger teabowl

CIRCA 1723-25

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A Böttger teabowl
CIRCA 1723-25
Painted in Eisenrot by J.G. Höroldt with a continuous scene of Orientals flanked by flowering shrubs on terraces above a double line border, one Oriental with his hands concealed beneath his robes and seated by a birdcage, the other nearby with a small dog playfully jumping at her feet, with insects in flight above, the interior with a figure fishing near a pavilion within a double concentric circle cartouche below a double concentric circle border at the rim (minute scratch to left of birdcage)

Guido Rossi, Milan

Specialist note

See Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts', Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, p. 40, no. 13 for a beaker and saucer from the service and an extensive discussion of this service. A sugar-box with similar decoration was sold in these Rooms on 8th July 2002, lot 3, and a teapot was sold in these Rooms on 28th June 1976, lot 143. Also see Ulrich Pietsch, 'Early Meissen Porcelain' Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck, 14th November 1993-31st January 1994, and others 26th February-30th April 1994 Exhibition Catalogue (Lübeck, 1993), pp. 48-49, no. 33 for a beaker and saucer from this rare service, and where he discusses that Höroldt fired the 'first red-painted service on 19th July 1720, and then brought it to Dresden'.