A Meissen Böttger porcelain tea bowl and saucer - image-1

Lot 811 Dα

A Meissen Böttger porcelain tea bowl and saucer

Auction 1159 - overview Cologne
13.11.2020, 09:30 - Decorative Arts incl. the Renate and Tono Dreßen Collection
Estimate: 500 € - 800 €
Result: 875 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen Böttger porcelain tea bowl and saucer

The well of the saucer finely painted with a landscape en grisaille on a silver painted bracket. The associated tea bowl with a Chinoiserie decor on scrollwork brackets. Unmarked. Some wear. D saucer 12, H cup 4.5, D 7.6 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, c. 1720, the decor Augsburg, attributed to Johann Auffenwerth or Abraham Seuter, c. 1720 - 30.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. Pietsch (ed.), Porzellan Parforce. Jagdliches Meißner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 2005, p. 56, illus. 4, for an almost identically decorated saucer in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt a. M. (inv. no. X18539/RF251). Decor attributed to the Auffenwerth workshop.
Cf. Ducret, Meißner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Braunschweig 1971, vol. I, nos. 305, 316, with identical decor by the Seuter workshop.