CIRCA 1720, ALMOST CERTAINLY PAINTED IN THE AUGSBURG WORKSHOP OF BARTOLOMÄUS SEUTER

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN HAUSMALEREI TEAPOT AND COVER
CIRCA 1720, ALMOST CERTAINLY PAINTED IN THE AUGSBURG WORKSHOP OF BARTOLOMÄUS SEUTER
Of squat pear-shape, the domed cover secured to the gilt scroll handle and eagle-head spout with a silver-gilt chain, the cover and pot painted with two songbirds perched in trees, botanical flowers, specimen fruit and scattered insects
4 ½ in. (11.4 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1973, lot 58.
The Collection of Marian and Michael Sabbe; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2006, lot 177.

Lot Essay

Similar birds flying and perched on branches are to be found on faience jugs painted by Seuter between 1715 and 1720 and illustrated by Ducret, Meissener Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, vol. II, pl. 1-7. The birds are likely taken from an illustrated book on ornithology. Compare the jug from the Kamarsky Collection, Christie's, New York, 30 October 1993, lot 12 as well as the similarly decorated Schwartzlot bowl with Gitterwerk rim in the Museo delle Porcellane at the Palazzo Pitti.

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