A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GADROONED CHINOISERIE COFFEE-POT AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER AND FROM THE WORKSHOP OF THE AUFENWERTH SISTERS, ANNA ELIZABETH WALD AND SABINA HOSENNESTEL

Details

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GADROONED CHINOISERIE COFFEE-POT AND COVER
The porcelain circa 1725, the decoration slightly later and from the workshop of the Aufenwerth sisters, Anna Elizabeth Wald and Sabina Hosennestel
Of baluster form with domed cover, finely painted with chinamen preparing tea within shaped gilt bands enriched in iron-red and purple with foliate scrolls and pendant husks, the gadroons with alternating iron-red and gilt husks
7in. (18.4cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired prior to World War II
By descent through the family

Lot Essay

Other pieces from this service are in the Hans Syz Collection at the Smithsonian Institution and the Forsythe Wickes Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. nos. 65, 2076-80). See J. Jefferson Miller, et al., The Hans Syz Collection, Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 342. As these pieces have been with the consignor for so many years, their existence was not known by Siegfried Ducret.

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