A BÖTTGER PORCELAIN HAUSMALEREI BEAKER AND SAUCER painted in Breslau by Ignas Bottengruber, the beaker emblematic of Apollo and the saucer of Venus depicted standing within elaborate gilt foliage scrollwork, the God with a dragon pierced with arrows to his right his lyre to his left and the reverse with the story of Apollo and Daphne en grisaille beneath an astronomical trophy, Venus with Cupid at her side flanked by swans and billing doves and seated with Adonis in a grisaille panel below (internal hairline crack in saucer), Dreher's .. to beaker, circa 1730

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A BÖTTGER PORCELAIN HAUSMALEREI BEAKER AND SAUCER painted in Breslau by Ignas Bottengruber, the beaker emblematic of Apollo and the saucer of Venus depicted standing within elaborate gilt foliage scrollwork, the God with a dragon pierced with arrows to his right his lyre to his left and the reverse with the story of Apollo and Daphne en grisaille beneath an astronomical trophy, Venus with Cupid at her side flanked by swans and billing doves and seated with Adonis in a grisaille panel below (internal hairline crack in saucer), Dreher's .. to beaker, circa 1730

Provenance

G.Tillmann, Hamburg

Literature

G. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und Poryellan-Hausmaler, Vol. I, fig. 145
W. B. Honey, Dresden China, pl. XVIIIb

Lot Essay

Gustav E. Pazaurek, ibid, fig. 145, pl. 180 where he mentions two other examples of beakers and saucers from this service of Gods, one with Amphritite and a monogram in the Museo Civico, Milan, another with Ceres in the collection of Dr. G. Reichenheim, Berlin. An additional beaker and saucer was sold in our London Rooms, 4 July 1988. Another was in the Blohm collection illustrated Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm, no. 111

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