A Meissen Böttger porcelain tea bowl and saucer
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.
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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.