A Meissen Hausmaler gold-ground silver-gilt-mounted coffee pot and cover and two teabowls and saucers, circa 1725

Painted in Augsburg in the Auffenwerth workshop, probably by Anna Elisabeth Wald, each piece reserved with lobed panels on the burnished gilt ground enclosing a chinoiserie scene within a quatrelobe gilt scrollwork cartouche embellished with iron-red scrollwork, the cover reserved with two panels enclosing a landscape vignette with an exotic bird, the teabowls with a similar vignette, insects and birds in flight on the reverse, the interior of the teabowls gilt, the coffee pot with contemporary silver-gilt mount marked for Paul Solanier, Augsburg, the coffee pot: 21.5cm high; the saucers: 12.8cm diam.; the teabowls: 4.5cm high (very minor wear) (5)

Provenance:
Edmond de Rothschild Collection, anon. sale, Christie's London, 28th March 1977, lot 71 (the coffee pot), and 17th October 1977, lot 94 (the teabowls and saucers);
With H. Reichert, Munich (the coffee pot);
Private Collection, Switzerland, anon. sale, Christie's London, 11 December 2007, lots 38 (the coffee pot) and 39 (the teabowls and saucers);
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain