A Meissen Hausmalerei teabowl and saucer
Circa 1725, the decoration slightly later, blue crossed swords marks
Decorated by Ignaz Bottengruber, the teabowl with a frieze of gilt strapwork joined by puce horned satyrs and hunting trophies and with coloured birds and foliage, the lower part with radiating gilt gadroons, the saucer with a purple hunting scene within a waisted gilt-scroll cartouche flanked by two sportsmen, owls and dead game, an iron-red satyr's mask above and a mask suspending a tree below, surrounded by gilt strapwork and turquoise foliage within a gilt band border, the underside with radiating gilt gadroons (teabowl with three restored rim chips, saucer with restored rim chips, areas of restoration to gilding and some flaking to turquoise enamel)
A Meissen Hausmalerei teabowl and saucer
Circa 1725, the decoration slightly later, blue crossed swords marks
Decorated by Ignaz Bottengruber, the teabowl with a frieze of gilt strapwork joined by puce horned satyrs and hunting trophies and with coloured birds and foliage, the lower part with radiating gilt gadroons, the saucer with a purple hunting scene within a waisted gilt-scroll cartouche flanked by two sportsmen, owls and dead game, an iron-red satyr's mask above and a mask suspending a tree below, surrounded by gilt strapwork and turquoise foliage within a gilt band border, the underside with radiating gilt gadroons (teabowl with three restored rim chips, saucer with restored rim chips, areas of restoration to gilding and some flaking to turquoise enamel)
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