CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, DREHER'S , TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCERS

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A PAIR OF BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND SAUCERS
CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, DREHER'S , TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCERS
Decorated in the Augsburg workshop of Bartolomäus Seuter with vignettes of Orientals at various pursuits, the vignettes on the stands supported by scroll pedestals, below broad gilt bands edged with C-scrolls, the lower parts with gadroons gilt with dot ornament alternating with scrolls and gilt bands, the double-scroll handles richly gilt, the saucers similarly decorated with Orientals on terraces supported by strapwork, the undersides with similar gadroons (very slight wear to rims and edges of vignettes) (2)

Provenance

Anon., sale Stuker, Berne, 1960.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I, p. 199, pl. 228 for a similar two-handled beaker, and lot 22 in this sale for a related silver-gilt mounted coffee-pot and cover.

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