A BÖTTGER TEABOWL applied with raised gilt decoration of birds perched among flowering plants above a stag hunt, the interior of the rim with trees, stags, dogs and men with guns (two rim chips and slight flaking to gilt decoration), circa 1715, the decoration circa 1730

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A BÖTTGER TEABOWL applied with raised gilt decoration of birds perched among flowering plants above a stag hunt, the interior of the rim with trees, stags, dogs and men with guns (two rim chips and slight flaking to gilt decoration), circa 1715, the decoration circa 1730

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Cf. the teabowl and saucer from a private collection, illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, op. cit., no. 93. where he suggests that the applied gold decoration was executed by the same hand as the similar decoration found on Saxon glass (see G. Hasse, Sächsisches Glas, no. 238), rather than by the Meissen painter Conrad Hunger as traditionally thought

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