A BTTGER PORCELAIN SAUCER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER AND PAINTED AT THE AUGSBURG WORKSHOP BY SABINA AUFFENWERTH

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A BTTGER PORCELAIN SAUCER
The porcelain circa 1720, the decoration slightly later and painted at the Augsburg workshop by Sabina Auffenwerth
Painted in Eisenrot with a man amorously embracing his lover at her dressing table, within an iron-red and gilt scroll mirror shaped cartouche below gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk

Lot Essay

See Siegfried Ducret, Meissener Porzellan, Band. II, Brunswick, 1972, no. 64, for the same figures painted in colours in a variant interior on a saucer and attributed to Sabina Auffenwerth and p. 167, fig. 211 for a saucer apparently from the same service as the present example and with identical Laub-und-Bandelwerk but ascribed to Abraham Seuter. A third saucer from this service, also attributed to Seuter, was in the Anderson Collection; Christie's London, 1 June 1992, lot 13.