CIRCA 1715, DREHER'S TO TEABOWLS AND SAUCERS

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A Böttger porcelain white tea and coffee-service
Circa 1715, Dreher's to teabowls and saucers
Each piece applied with bands of acanthus leaves to the lower parts and the undersides of the saucers, comprising:

A squat globular teapot and cover with short tapering spout and loop handle, the top rim with a band of acanthus leaves and the cover with pierced oviform finial
A baluster coffee-pot and cover with S-scroll handle, the top rim with pendant bell flowers and the cover with button finial (restoration to edge of cover and finial)
An hexagonal baluster tea-caddy and cover
An oval sugar-box and cover, the top rim applied with a band of flowerheads (minute chip to underside edge of cover)
A flared slop-basin (three rim chips, one with an associated crack, slight starcrack to base)
Four teabowls and saucers (one saucer with slight chip, another with a minute blemish) (9)

Provenance

Collection of Florence J. Gould, sold Sotheby's Monte-Carlo, 27 June 1984, lot 1530.

Lot Essay

The shapes designed by J.J. Irminger.

Cf. Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts (1979), p. 33, pl 25 for a similar teapot with a blue AR mark in the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe.

For the similar slop bowl in Dresden, see W. Godber et al Böttger (1982), fig. 185

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