CIRCA 1720, UNDERSIDE WITH BROWN SHAPED SHIELD BEARING A COAT OF ARMS

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A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI ARMORIAL SLENDER BEAKER
CIRCA 1720, UNDERSIDE WITH BROWN SHAPED SHIELD BEARING A COAT OF ARMS
Painted with a continuous mythological scene of Apollo chasing Daphne, the scantily clad Daphne turning into a tree, her river god father seated before her, a river flowing from an urn at his side, a swan and figures among reeds to the left and Eros in flight above firing an arrow, a winged putto nearby supporting a coat of arms in a ribbon-tied escutcheon, Zeus in the form of an eagle holding the ribbon in his beak (chip to rim and inside edge of footrim, further very small chipping to footrim, minute wear to enamels)
3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The coat of arms within the footrim on the underside of the beaker, of a hand holding a ring, appears to be that of the Schiller family of Nuremberg. The same coat of arms appears on the underside of a du Paquier teabowl and saucer from the Emma Schiff von Suvero Collection sold in these Rooms on 7th July 2003, lot 38, and also apears on an armorial Deckelhumpen illustrated by Helmut Bosch, Nürnberger Hausmaler (Munich, 1984), p. 431, no. 344.

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