A PAIR OF BÖTTGER TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND CHINOISERIE TREMBLEUSE SAUCERS painted in the manner of P.E. Schindler and moulded with coloured vine and flowering rose branches, the underside of the saucers painted with continuous bands of chinoiserie figures at various pursuits, with animals, smoking, taking tea and praying on terraces among flowering plants, the handles and interiors of the beakers richly gilt, the footrims of the cups with interlocking iron-red whorl pattern (slight restored chips to rims of saucers, one trembleuse rim and one beaker, one beaker with restored hair crack, two handles restored, slight retouching to gilding), Dreher's .. marks to saucers and one beaker, before 1725 (2)

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A PAIR OF BÖTTGER TWO-HANDLED BEAKERS AND CHINOISERIE TREMBLEUSE SAUCERS painted in the manner of P.E. Schindler and moulded with coloured vine and flowering rose branches, the underside of the saucers painted with continuous bands of chinoiserie figures at various pursuits, with animals, smoking, taking tea and praying on terraces among flowering plants, the handles and interiors of the beakers richly gilt, the footrims of the cups with interlocking iron-red whorl pattern (slight restored chips to rims of saucers, one trembleuse rim and one beaker, one beaker with restored hair crack, two handles restored, slight retouching to gilding), Dreher's .. marks to saucers and one beaker, before 1725 (2)

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's London, 20 May 1991, lot 156

Exhibited

Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset

Lot Essay

The following sketches are identifiable in the Schulz-Codex, no. 8 the bottom lefthand sketch with praying figures and a man smoking a pipe, no. 52 second row, second drawing from the left for the kneeling figure in a peaked cap, no. 72 top row on the left for the horned dog and no. 116 third row, two figures praying and one seated

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