CIRCA 1725, GILDER'S 4. MARK TO BOTH, THE MOUNTS STAMPED FOR THE WORKSHOP OF ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG

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A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CREAM-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, GILDER'S 4. MARK TO BOTH, THE MOUNTS STAMPED FOR THE WORKSHOP OF ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG
On three paw feet, probably painted by P.E. Schindler with Orientals, with a sage holding a baby, his companion serving tea before a low table, within a quatrefoil gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels flanked by indianische Blumen, the domed cover with a continuous scene of Orientals at various pursuits, slight wear to gilding on handle and finial
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) high

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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.

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