CIRCA 1725, DREHER'S TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GOLDCHINESEN TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725, DREHER'S TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER
Gilt at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop, the beaker with a frieze of Oriental figures among trees and shrubs on grassy terraces, one figure with a globe, another with a telescope, the moulded fluted gadroons on the lower part gilded with dot ornament, scrolls and bands, the interior and handles richly gilt, the gilt-ground saucer reserved with a scalloped circular panel edged with foliage and enclosing a vignette of two figures by urns on a pedestal and a fence, the underside with similar radiating fluted gadroons within a broad gilt border (some wear to upper side of saucer, beaker with some areas of wear to rim and interior, very slight further wear)

Provenance

With Caviglia, Lugano, from whom it was acquired in May 1989.

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Lot Essay

The unusual scene of figures with a telescope and a globe on the beaker are emblematic of Astronomy and Astrology. For a plate in the Wark Collection, Florida, with vignettes emblematic of various sciences which include a telescope and a globe, see Mary Campbell Gristina and Ralph Henry Wark, 'The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain', The Cummer Gallery of Art Catalogue (Jacksonville, 1984), Cat. No. 156, col. pl. 48. A beaker and saucer of similar form and related gilt decoration was sold by Sotheby's New York on 26th October 1988, lot 29, and another related beaker is illustrated by Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan (Brunswick, 1971), p. 199, fig. 228.

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