CIRCA 1735, ATTRIBUTED TO IGNAZ PREISSLER OR HIS WORKSHOP

This teabowl and saucer is part of a small group of similarly decorated du Paquier teabowls and saucers which possibly once formed a service. They were previously attributed to various Hausmalern, although a consensus appears to have been reached that they were painted by the Breslau painter Ignaz Preissler, or his workshop.¹ Other examples include another formerly in the Blohm Collection,² one from the Jacques Müsam Collection, Berlin, sold by Glückselig, Vienna, in April 1925, lot 474, and another formerly in the Margarete Oppenheim Collection, Berlin, sold by Julius Böhler, Munich, on 18th-20th May 1936, lot 930, and possibly again by Christie's Geneva on 10th November 1986, lot 203. Another example of this type was sold by Christie’s, London, on 11 December 2007, lot 12. An armorial teabowl and saucer from the Schiff von Suvero Collection (with Turbanned figures), which is also possibly by the same hand, was sold in these Rooms on 7th May 2003, lot 38. The inspiration for these subjects was almost certainly derived from the prints by Petrus Schenk the Elder and his imitators.

1. See Sebastian Kuhn, ‘Breslau Hausmaler, Ignaz Preissler’, in Fired by Passion, Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, Stuttgart, 2009, Vol. I, p. 525, no. 6:20, where it is illustrated alongside a teabowl and saucer with related decoration executed in purple monochrome.
2. Hermann Jeddig, 'Porzellan aus der Sammlung Blohm', Catalogue, Hamburg, 1968, no. 119 for a teabowl and saucer painted in a similar manner with European scenes inspired by David Teniers, which the author attributes to Carl Ferdinand von Wolfsburg.