Lot Essay
Ducret op. cit. pl.191 illustrates a beaker in the Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf with a similar subject of a youth and his dog and suggests that this may be derived from a Ridinger print
Details
A BØTTGER TWO-HANDLED HAUSMALEREI BEAKER AND SAUCER decorated in Augsburg by Abraham Seuter in Schwarzlot, Eisenrot and silver, the beaker with a woman plucking a fowl, the reverse with a youth and a dog, the saucer with peasants carousing at a table within an elaborate silver Laub-und-Bandelwerk surrounds, the panels with traces of gilding, circa 1720-25
Literature
Ducret (1972), figs. 158 and 159