Lot Essay
The style of the figure painting and the treatment of the trees suggests the hand of the painter Philipp Ernst Schindler; for two tea bowls and saucers with Augsburg mounts, painted in a similar manner see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, London, 2008, pp. 304-5, no. 78 a, b. A documentary saucer, painted with chinoiserie figures and signed 'PES', is illustustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pl. 60, no. 220.