Lot Essay
For a teabowl and saucer with related Eisenrot decoration above unmatched supports, see R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 36, no. 114.
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, DREHER'S .. TO TEABOWL AND TO SAUCER, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION CIRCA 1730-35
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A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND A SAUCER
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, DREHER'S .. TO TEABOWL AND TO SAUCER, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION CIRCA 1730-35
The teabowl painted in a bright orange-red palette, with a figure beneath by turrets and a tower in a wooded landscape, the reverse with a bird on a branch, the saucer in a russet palette with a hunting party in a wooded landscape vignette, each supported by gilt scrolls within gilt band C-scroll and dot borders (teabowl with minute gilded chip to footrim, saucer with wear to glaze and some minute wear to gilding) (2)
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, DREHER'S .. TO TEABOWL AND TO SAUCER, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION CIRCA 1730-35
The teabowl painted in a bright orange-red palette, with a figure beneath by turrets and a tower in a wooded landscape, the reverse with a bird on a branch, the saucer in a russet palette with a hunting party in a wooded landscape vignette, each supported by gilt scrolls within gilt band C-scroll and dot borders (teabowl with minute gilded chip to footrim, saucer with wear to glaze and some minute wear to gilding) (2)
Provenance
With Newman and Newman, London
A Sutton Place Collector, sale Christie's, New York, 22nd October 2003, lot 406
A Sutton Place Collector, sale Christie's, New York, 22nd October 2003, lot 406
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