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CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION AND MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY, THE MOUNTS WITH MARKS FOR ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG
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A BÖTTGER SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED GOLDCHINESEN GADROONED BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND DOMED COVER
CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION AND MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY, THE MOUNTS WITH MARKS FOR ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG
Decorated in the Augsburg workshop of Bartolomäus Seuter, with a continuous central frieze of Oriental figures on a terrace with trees, three in conversation at a table below a three tiered canopy, musicians and figures around a low table before a burning censer, between bands of gadroons gilt alternately with dot ornament, scrolls and broad bands, the large S-scroll handle, triangular spout, waisted foot, flared rim and knop finial all richly gilt, the domed cover gilt with exotic birds in branches divided by an insect and a bird in flight above a broad gilt serrated border, the hinged mounts chased with a band of stiff leaves, the strapwork thumbpiece with a shell (flange on interior of cover with small chip, further chipping to flange from time of manufacture gilded, some areas of wear to gilding)
8 in. (20.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION AND MOUNTS CONTEMPORARY, THE MOUNTS WITH MARKS FOR ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG
Decorated in the Augsburg workshop of Bartolomäus Seuter, with a continuous central frieze of Oriental figures on a terrace with trees, three in conversation at a table below a three tiered canopy, musicians and figures around a low table before a burning censer, between bands of gadroons gilt alternately with dot ornament, scrolls and broad bands, the large S-scroll handle, triangular spout, waisted foot, flared rim and knop finial all richly gilt, the domed cover gilt with exotic birds in branches divided by an insect and a bird in flight above a broad gilt serrated border, the hinged mounts chased with a band of stiff leaves, the strapwork thumbpiece with a shell (flange on interior of cover with small chip, further chipping to flange from time of manufacture gilded, some areas of wear to gilding)
8 in. (20.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Anon., sale Stuker, Berne 1960
Konsul Dr. Alphons Wiederkehr.
Konsul Dr. Alphons Wiederkehr.
Literature
Siegfreid Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Ausburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I, col. pl. II, and on the front cover dust-jacket.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.