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A Böttger teabowl and saucer
Lot 36

A Böttger teabowl and saucer

CIRCA 1723-24, TEABOWL WITH DREHER'S INCISED TO FOOTRIM, SAUCER POSSIBLY WITH INDISTINCT INCISED 2

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A Böttger teabowl and saucer
CIRCA 1723-24, TEABOWL WITH DREHER'S INCISED TO FOOTRIM, SAUCER POSSIBLY WITH INDISTINCT INCISED 2
Painted by Johann Ehrenfried Stadler in the Kakiemon manner, the exterior of the teabowl and saucer each with an Oriental fishing by stylised rockwork, flowering shrubs and an iron-red, yellow, purple and 'opal-lustred' pavilion, the teabowl interior with a similar pavilion, rocks and shrubs within two concentric red lines below an iron-red border of ovolo ornament divided by husks, the border of the saucer with husks divided by radiating lines within semi-circles, the underside with three concentric red circles (minute wear to base of teabowl interior, teabowl footrim possibly slightly ground)

Specialist note

A teapot and two teabowls and saucers with similar pavilions and rockwork were sold in these Rooms on 30th March 1987, lots 165-166. The borders were more simple and the teabowls and saucers bore crossed swords in underglaze blue and enamel. A bowl with similar decoration, probably from the same service, is illustrated by 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. 70-71, no. 56, where he discusses the differences between the 'opal lustre' used by Stadler here, and Böttger lustre.