CIRCA 1725, THE HINGED SILVER-GILT COVER WITH AUGSBURG TOWN MARK AND MAKER'S MARK EA FOR ELIAS ADAM

细节

A Meissen Royal silver-gilt-mounted chinoiserie ewer (schnabelkanne)
Circa 1725, the hinged silver-gilt cover with Augsburg town mark and maker's mark EA for Elias Adam
With a large scroll handle and pointed spout, painted by J.G. Höroldt, the cylindrical body with a continuous scene of Orientals at various pursuits including playing musical instruments, brewing tea and smoking on a terrace with flowering shrubs, ornamental grasses, vases and insects in flight above, a heron at the end of the terrace, the slender tapering neck with iron-red birds and insects in flight between two broad bands of elaborate gitterwerk, the lower band incorporating vine leaves and the Royal monogram FAR within an oval cartouche below the spout, the circular spreading foot with a broad gilt band, the silver-gilt mounts engraved with strapwork and husks, the hinged cover with bud finial and mermaid thumbpiece (small shallow chip to edge of rim near handle, areas of slight wear to gilding of handle, upper rim and line border at shoulder)
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high overall

来源

Anon., sale Christie's London, 28th March 1977, lot 15

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

It has been previously suggested (when last on the market in 1977) that this ewer bore Augustus III's monogram. However, as he did not succeed his father until 1733, the initials are those of Augustus the Strong (Fredericus Augustus Rex), and this ewer may have been made for his personal use.

Very few jugs of this precise form appear to exist. Two undecorated ewers of the same form are at Lustheim, see Rainer Rückert, op. cit. (Munich, 1966), pl. 9, nos. 22 and 23, and another, decorated in the Seuter workshop at Augsburg, is in the Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum, see Stefan Bursche, Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (Berlin, 1980), cat. no. 127.