Lot 82
82
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI CHINOISERIE POT AND COVER
THE PROPERTY OF CANADIAN COLLECTORS
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI CHINOISERIE POT AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1730, THE DECORATION OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE FROM THE AUFFENWERTH WORKSHOP, PROBABLY BY ELIZABETH WALD AUFFENWERTH

Details
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI CHINOISERIE POT AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1730, THE DECORATION OF SLIGHTLY LATER DATE FROM THE AUFFENWERTH WORKSHOP, PROBABLY BY ELIZABETH WALD AUFFENWERTH
The slightly domed cover with double knop finial, painted with three Chinoiserie garden vignettes within gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk surrounds, the rim with alternating panels of gilt scrolls and puce, iron-red and gilt flowers; the bowl similarly decorated with scenes of Chinoiserie figures taking tea, flanked by angular gilt bracket handles and raised on three short feet
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) wide, overall (2)
Provenance
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 18 May 1989, lot 159.

Lot Essay

See Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, vol. I, Braunsweig, 1971, p. 263, pls. 356-357 for similarly decorated pieces attributed to Elizabeth Wald; also Christie's, London, 3 June 1996, lot 467 for a teabowl and saucer painted with Chinoiseries by Elizabeth Wald.

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