CIRCA 1723-25, DREHER'S TO FOOTRIMS, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1730

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND A SAUCER
CIRCA 1723-25, DREHER'S TO FOOTRIMS, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1730
Painted in the Auffenwerth workshop, almost certainly by Elisabeth Wald, each side of the teabowl with Orientals on terraces within shaped oval gilt cartouches edged with scrolls, the interior with indianische Blumen below a Gitterwerk border, the saucer with Orientals by furniture, fences and shrubs, one with parrots on a pole, above a scroll support, within a Gitterwerk border (saucer with two small restored rim chips, flaking to green enamel, teabowl with wear to rim, further very slight wear to gilding) (2)

Provenance

Carl Heuer Collection, Frankfurt
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 18th April 1991, lot 6

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Lot Essay

The crouching figure on one side of the teabowl is derived from an engraving by Martin Engelbrecht, illustrated by Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan, bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I, p. 107, fig. 45. The present teabowl is almost certainly from the same service as the saucer illustrated by Ducret as col. pl. XI, which he attributes to Wald.

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