Lot 31
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A BTTGER PORCELAIN TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER AND PROBABLY DUTCH

Details
A BTTGER PORCELAIN TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1720, the decoration slightly later and probably Dutch
Painted in iron-red, turquoise, pale-blue, yellow enriched in gilt in the Kakiemon style with the 'Old Japanese Lady' pattern of a lady seated in a pavilion by a flowering tree, between straw fences and a tied curtain, beside a running hound; together with a Meissen hausmalerei teabowl and saucer, circa 1720, the decoration probably Dutch, painted in a Kakiemon type palette with birds perched in flowering branches issuing from wheat sheafs below borders of demi-flowerheads with pendant leaves between spearheads above 'cracked ice' bands (4)

Lot Essay

See Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington D.C., 1979, p. 571, no. 384, for a similar cup and saucer. Also see John Ayers, et al., Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, London, 1990, nos. 127, 327, 328 and lot 195 of the present auction.