A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN HOT-WATER JUG AND COVER of baluster form decorated at Augsburg in the workshop of Abraham Seuter with Orientals with bird lures, offering fruit, sitting beside bowls of utensils and at discussion beside feathery trees and a dragon in flight on terraces with gilt scrollwork supports, the scroll handles, spout, button finial and rims richly gilt, gilt chain attachment (small rim restoration near spout, minute chip to inside rim of cover and footrim, slight rubbing to gilding), iron-red lustre BCS: mark, circa 1725

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A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN HOT-WATER JUG AND COVER of baluster form decorated at Augsburg in the workshop of Abraham Seuter with Orientals with bird lures, offering fruit, sitting beside bowls of utensils and at discussion beside feathery trees and a dragon in flight on terraces with gilt scrollwork supports, the scroll handles, spout, button finial and rims richly gilt, gilt chain attachment (small rim restoration near spout, minute chip to inside rim of cover and footrim, slight rubbing to gilding), iron-red lustre BCS: mark, circa 1725
15.5cm. high

Provenance

Earl of Lichfield, sale Christie's, 28 November 1941, lot 74 (part)

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, vol. I, nos. 125-129, for a drawing by J.G. Höroldt from which the scene of a figure by a bowl of utensils is taken and for other pieces where this source is used

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