Details
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND A SAUCER
CIRCA 1720-25, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER
Painted by Abraham Seuter, one side of the beaker reserved with a scholar in a library, the other with an alchemist in his workshop, a kiln beyond, within tooled scrollwork cartouches, the saucer with a quatrefoil silvered panel reserved with Columbine between Harlequin and Pantalone, a cherub minstrel and a dog (beaker with replacement handle, saucer with a small restored rim chip and two very small restored rim chips, slight flaking to enamel, silver oxidised) (2)
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, Hamburg, sale Sotheby's, London, 9th October 1961, lot 680 (saucer)
Dr. Kaufmann, Berne, sale Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, 1963 (presumably both)
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 9th November 1987, lot 87 (both)
Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson Collection, Orlando, Florida, sale Christie's, London, 1st June 1992, lot 12
Literature
Robert Schmidt, Early Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), no. 108, pl. 32 (saucer)
Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1972), Vol. II, col. pl. XII (both) and p. 160, no. 194 (beaker)
A. Allen et al., Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, Exhibition Catalogue, no. 7
Exhibited
Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, March 1988 - February 1989, Cat. no. 7
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
