CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS

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A Meissen Hausmalerei teabowl and saucer
Circa 1725, the decoration slightly later, blue crossed swords marks
Decorated by Ignaz Bottengruber, the teabowl with a frieze of gilt strapwork joined by puce horned satyrs and hunting trophies and with coloured birds and foliage, the lower part with radiating gilt gadroons, the saucer with a purple hunting scene within a waisted gilt-scroll cartouche flanked by two sportsmen, owls and dead game, an iron-red satyr's mask above and a mask suspending a tree below, surrounded by gilt strapwork and turquoise foliage within a gilt band border, the underside with radiating gilt gadroons (teabowl with three restored rim chips, saucer with restored rim chips, areas of restoration to gilding and some flaking to turquoise enamel)

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Lot Essay

This lot is from Bottengruber's second Jagd service. The teacaddy from this service has appeared in these Rooms on three occasions; on 3rd June 1973, lot 112, on 31st March 1980, lot 150 and on 15th October 1990, lot 105. The coffee-pot was sold in our Geneva Rooms on 14th November 1988, lot 103, and the sugar-basin on 29th November 1973, lot 39. For these two pieces, see Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und-Porzellan Hausmaler (Leipzig, 1925), Vol. I., figs. 148 and 151.

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