CIRCA 1745

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A GRISAILLE AND GILT 'MARTIN LUTHER' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1745
Decorated with a bust-length portrait of Martin Luther holding a quill and book in a circular medallion, the exterior of the teabowl with the portrait repeated in two medallions on a ground decorated with finely painted grisaille floral scrolls, the rims with a narrow band of gilt and grisaille scrolling foliate

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 and 24 March 1987, lot 344 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-133).

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Lot Essay

See footnote to previous lot. This earlier service has been taken from an engraving by Jan Luiken (1649-1712), probably after a portrait by Cranach the Younger; it was included in a Lutheran Bible published at the beginning of the 18th Century and is a much closer rendition of the original print than the portrait on the later service.

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