A BÖTTGER BLACK-LACQUERED RED-STONEWARE TEABOWL AND SAUCER gilt in the manner of Martin Schnell, the teabowl with flowering branches between double bands and the interior with a bird in flight, the saucer with two chinoiserie figures beside rockwork and a tree and the reverse with two trailing flowering branches (minute chip to rim and minute chips to footrim of teabowl, gilding rubbed), circa 1715
Details
A BÖTTGER BLACK-LACQUERED RED-STONEWARE TEABOWL AND SAUCER gilt in the manner of Martin Schnell, the teabowl with flowering branches between double bands and the interior with a bird in flight, the saucer with two chinoiserie figures beside rockwork and a tree and the reverse with two trailing flowering branches (minute chip to rim and minute chips to footrim of teabowl, gilding rubbed), circa 1715
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 25 October 1977, lot 105
Anon., sale Sotheby's Geneva, 9 November 1987, lot 69
Exhibited
Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 3
Lot Essay
Cf. Wark, no. 17 for a similar example formerly in the Katz Collection; and Gillmeister, no. 2