A GROUP OF BÖTTGER AND MEISSEN HAUSMALER WARES

CIRCA 1720-1740

細節

A GROUP OF BÖTTGER AND MEISSEN HAUSMALER WARES
Circa 1720-1740
Including a Böttger hausmalerei saucer, circa 1720, painted very slightly later at Augsburg by Abraham Seuter in iron-red monochrome with an old man and his young lover seated beside a curtain within a baroque scroll; a Meissen hausmalerei teabowl and saucer, circa 1740, painted in underglaze-blue with the Fels und Vogel pattern, overdecorated slightly later in the workshop of F.J. Ferner with flowers and buildings, the saucer with a running hare; and a Meissen puce-mosaïque saucer, circa 1750, painted in the French rococo style with Venus and Cupid reading; together with a Meissen Chinoiserie plate, 19th century, painted in the style of C.F. Herold with a potentate attended by servants on a lustre and gilt mosaïque bracket reserved with a Purpurmalerei landscape within an ogival cartouche, the border with three gilt lobed cartouches painted in monochrome puce with European and Asian figures at the quayside alternating with triangles of gilt and lustre scale-pattern
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diameter (5)

來源

With S. Berges, New York (the puce-mosaïque saucer)

展覽

Orlando, Florida, Eighteenth Century Porcelain, From the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, Orlando Museum of Art, 27 March 1988-12 February 1989, nos. 8 (Seuter decorated saucer), 12 (Ferner decorated teabowl and saucer), 23 (plate, as circa 1740).

拍品專文

The scene on the Seuter-decorated saucer is taken from an engraving by Albrecht Schmidt of Augsburg, two teabowls with the same scene are recorded one in the Hetjensmuseum in Düsseldorf and the other in the Isaacson Collection Seattle, illustrated by Ducret (1972), vol. II, nos. 213 and 215; another was sold in Christie's London, 29 November 1973, lot 46. For a similar Ferner teabowl and saucer, see J. Jefferson Miller II, et al, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1979, vol. I, no. 372.