CIRCA 1725, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, RED ENAMEL COLLECTION NO. 214

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI HEXAGONAL BALUSTER TEACADDY AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION ALMOST CONTEMPORARY, RED ENAMEL COLLECTION NO. 214
Decorated in silver and gilt with two chinoiserie figures, flowering shrubs, pagodas, pierced rockwork and birds, the raised ribs enriched in gilding, the circular cover with a silvered flower, the side with a gilt pendant flowerhead border (slight wear to gilding, oxidisation to silvering, caddy with diagonal crack to two facets with very small associated loss, minute chipping to upper rim, minute chip to one rib, small chips to rim of cover)
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Franz Mannheimer, Amsterdam (red no. 214- inventory number)
The Estate of Dr. Joseph Kler, sale Christie's New York, 27th April 1984, lot 4
Andreina Torre, Zürich, sale Christie's, Geneva, 16th November 1992, lot 334 (unsold)
With E. & H. Manners, London, 1993

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For a teapot from the same service see Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), no. 36. Two cups with similar decoration from the Markgrafen und Grossherzöge von Baden Collection were sold by Sotheby's, Schloß sale, 7th October 1995, lot 1335.

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