CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE BRESLAU DECORATION CIRCA 1725-30

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE BRESLAU DECORATION CIRCA 1725-30
Decorated by Ignaz Bottengruber, the teabowl frieze with hunting trophies and birds on gilt strapwork joined by puce satyr masks, the lower part with gilt flutes, the saucer with a purple hunting scene within a gilt-scroll cartouche issuing strapwork supporting sportsmen, owls and game, with a red satyr's mask above and a mask below, within a gilt band border, the underside fluted (teabowl with three restored rim chips, saucer with restored rim chips, areas of restoration to gilding and some flaking to turquoise enamel)

Provenance

Jahn Collection, sale Lempertz, Cologne, 12th June 1989, lot 27
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 7th July 2003, lot 99

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Lot Essay

This lot is from Bottengruber's third Jagd service. 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. Both these pieces are illustrated by Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence und Porzellan Hausmaler (Leipzig, 1925), Vol. I, figs. 150 and 151, and for a saucer see fig. 152.

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