CIRCA 1720-25, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION CIRCA 1725-30

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1720-25, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION CIRCA 1725-30
Decorated in iron-red and gilding in the workshop of Sabina and Johann Auffenwerth, the teabowl with two landscapes within quatrefoil gilt line and scroll cartouches, the footrim with an iron-red scalloped and dot border, the saucer with a lady holding a gilt (apple?) in a landscape, within a hexafoil gilt line cartouche with iron-red and gilt scrolls and birds, both with gilt band and dot borders (very minor wear to saucer and rim of teabowl)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 24th May 2001, lot 383
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 26th November 2002, lot 54

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Lot Essay

For a teabowl and saucer from the same service (also with the border on the teabowl footrim and hexafoil cartouche on the saucer), see Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I, p. 258, nos. 347 and 347a.

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