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A BÖTTGER FLARED BEAKER
CIRCA 1723-25
Possibly painted by J.G. Melhorn with river-landscapes, one with a wooden shed against a buttressed garden wall, with trees and a schloss beyond, the other with a gothic church spire and other buildings nestling among trees, the towers of a distant schloss visible on the mountainous horizon, within shaped quatrefoil gilt cartouches, each with two straight sides, Böttger-lustre panels and gilt, iron-red and sepia scrolls, divided at the sides with pendant gilt husks and flowerheads suspending large flowerheads flanked by berried branches below, and surmounted above by small oval Böttger-lustre panels supporting drinking and smoking dwarves astride gilt staves issuing foliage, the lower part with a lustre band border and waisted gilt band above the footrim (areas of minute wear)
4¾ in. (11.9 cm.) high
CIRCA 1723-25
Possibly painted by J.G. Melhorn with river-landscapes, one with a wooden shed against a buttressed garden wall, with trees and a schloss beyond, the other with a gothic church spire and other buildings nestling among trees, the towers of a distant schloss visible on the mountainous horizon, within shaped quatrefoil gilt cartouches, each with two straight sides, Böttger-lustre panels and gilt, iron-red and sepia scrolls, divided at the sides with pendant gilt husks and flowerheads suspending large flowerheads flanked by berried branches below, and surmounted above by small oval Böttger-lustre panels supporting drinking and smoking dwarves astride gilt staves issuing foliage, the lower part with a lustre band border and waisted gilt band above the footrim (areas of minute wear)
4¾ in. (11.9 cm.) high
Provenance
With Otto Buel, Lucerne, from whom it was acquired in 1953.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.