A BÖTTGER SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER of pear shape, decorated at Augsburg in the workshop of Abraham Seuter after Watteau, painted in Schwarzlot, the hands and faces in flesh tints, with scenes from the Commedia dell'Arte, one side with Harlequin and Columbine beside Pierrot, the other with Mezzetin playing the guitar among other figures within shaped cartouches outlined in silver and with silver Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the scroll handle, spout, rims and finial enriched with gilding (the cover restored, scratching to spout and handle, the footrim slightly ground), the mounts with EA marks for Elias Adam, the porcelain circa 1725, the decoration a few years later

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A BÖTTGER SILVER-GILT MOUNTED HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER of pear shape, decorated at Augsburg in the workshop of Abraham Seuter after Watteau, painted in Schwarzlot, the hands and faces in flesh tints, with scenes from the Commedia dell'Arte, one side with Harlequin and Columbine beside Pierrot, the other with Mezzetin playing the guitar among other figures within shaped cartouches outlined in silver and with silver Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the scroll handle, spout, rims and finial enriched with gilding (the cover restored, scratching to spout and handle, the footrim slightly ground), the mounts with EA marks for Elias Adam, the porcelain circa 1725, the decoration a few years later
21cm. high

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For the engraved sources see, Siegfried Ducret, op. cit., Vol. II, no. 155 by Simonneau l'ainé after Watteau, 'Les habits sont italiens', this subject also appears on a saucer, see Ducret, ibid, no. 154 and in reverse on a teapot pl. XI, the scene on the other side is taken from an engraving by Tomassin fils, after Watteau, 'Sous un habit de Mezetin...', see Ducret, ibid., no. 176, this scene also occurs on two other pieces no. 177 and 178