CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, LUSTRE // TO SAUCER

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A BÖTTGER VINE-LEAF-MOULDED GOLDCHINESEN TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725, THE DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, LUSTRE // TO SAUCER
Decorated at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop with three vignettes of Oriental figures to the saucer and birds in branches to the interior of the teabowl, the gilt borders edged with beaded C-scrolls, the teabowl exterior and underside of the saucer moulded with fruiting vines enriched in green, blue, puce and gilding (minor chipping and restoration to rim of teabowl, slight wear to gilding)

Provenance

With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1972.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I, pp. 246-247, pls. 331 and 332 for related wares with vine-leaf moulding; see also Ducret, loc. cit., p. 216, pl. 262 for a saucer with related gilt decoration.

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