CIRCA 1715, THE 'GOLD FOIL' DECORATION CIRCA 1715-30

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A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND A SAUCER
CIRCA 1715, THE 'GOLD FOIL' DECORATION CIRCA 1715-30
With raised gilt decoration, the teabowl with birds perched among flowering plants above a stag-hunt, the interior of the rim with trees between men with guns, stags and hounds, the saucer with a bird perched on a branch within a border of trailing flowering plants (two repaired rim chips to teabowl, chip to inside footrim of saucer, some losses to gilt decoration) (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 14th June 1994, lot 192 (teabowl)
Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection, New York (saucer)
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 18th November 1996, lot 210 (saucer)

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Lot Essay

For a teabowl and saucer with the same borders and possibly from the same service, see U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain Exhibition Catalogue (Lübeck, 1993), no. 93, where he suggests that the applied gold decoration was executed by the same hand as the similar decoration found on Saxon glass (see G. Hasse, Sächsisches Glas, Leipzig, 1988, no. 238), rather than by C.C. Hunger as traditionally thought. Christoph Conrad Hunger, a itinerant goldsmith and arcanist, worked at Meissen briefly in 1717 and again between 1727 and 1728. For a teabowl and saucer with related decoration in the Arnhold Collection, see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (London, 2008), p. 630, no. 317.

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