A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND ACANTHUS-MOULDED SAUCER

CIRCA 1720, DECORATED CIRCA 1735 IN BAYREUTH AT THE J.F. METZSCH WORKSHOP

Details

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND ACANTHUS-MOULDED SAUCER
Circa 1720, decorated circa 1735 in Bayreuth at the J.F. Metzsch workshop
The teabowl interior finely painted in Purpurmalerei with a woodsman in a landscape, the saucer with a naval encounter close to a shoreline, within gilt roundels and flowers below gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the exterior moulded with acanthus leaves enriched in green and gilt and edged in purple, the exterior of the teabowl painted with ribbon-tied bouquets (2)

Provenance

Julius Carlebach Collection

Lot Essay

Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and Other Continental Porcelain in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 59, fig. 134 illustrates a pair of cups and saucers from the same service and attributes the decoration to R.C. von Drechsel, active circa 1740-1745. If this decorator was, indeed, involved in the present lot, it would seem most likely that he executed only the landscape panels and that the floral cartouches are by Metzsch. See also Hans Syz, et al., The Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 365 for a plate attributed to Johann Friedrich Metzsch, painted in Purpurmalerei with a landscape enclosed within a border of boldly coloured scrolls, flowers and shells.