A BÖTTGER COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER painted in the manner of J. G. Mehlhorn, the beaker-shaped cup with three figures lighting a fire beside a river with two Schloss on the far side before a glorious sunset with a streaked sky above, the saucer with a horseman appearing from a wooded glade beside a watermill within elaborate iron-red and gilt scroll and Böttger lustre panelled cartouches and within gilt C-scroll and flowerhead borders (piece of rim to cup broken and restuck and with associated rim chip, gilding slightly rubbed to cup), gilder's 13. to saucer and Dreher's x for Rehshuck to saucer, circa 1724

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A BÖTTGER COFFEE-CUP AND SAUCER painted in the manner of J. G. Mehlhorn, the beaker-shaped cup with three figures lighting a fire beside a river with two Schloss on the far side before a glorious sunset with a streaked sky above, the saucer with a horseman appearing from a wooded glade beside a watermill within elaborate iron-red and gilt scroll and Böttger lustre panelled cartouches and within gilt C-scroll and flowerhead borders (piece of rim to cup broken and restuck and with associated rim chip, gilding slightly rubbed to cup), gilder's 13. to saucer and Dreher's x for Rehshuck to saucer, circa 1724

Lot Essay

Cf. William W. Blackburn, 'The length of J.G. Herold's career as an artist, and other notes', Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, fig. 41, or a konfektdose by the same hand

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