TEA BOWL AND SAUCER WITH AUGSBURG "HAUSMALER" DECORATION Meissen, ca. 1720, painted ca. 1725 by Abraham Seuter after copper engravings by Johann Elias Ridinger.

Painted with animal scenes in iron-red camaïeu, the tea bowl with a resting dog on one side and a hound on the other side, the saucer with a slain deer with its hind legs resting between a broken tree trunk, both scenes on a gold lace console, the rims decorated with foliage and strapwork borders in gold. Underglaze blue sword mark and potter's mark ** for Christian Meynert on the tea bowl.
H 4.5 cm, Ø 13 cm.

Provenance:
- Art Dealer, E. Caviglia, Lugano.
- Sotheby's London, Collections, 27 October 2015, Lot No. 159.
- Aristocratic private collection, Southern Germany.

Comparable decorations by Abraham Seuter: S. Ducret, Meissener Porzellan, II. Bunte Augsburger Hausmalereien, 1972, Panel XV and pp. 112 and 113, Ills. 99-102; a teapot with a similar decoration from the Max Fahrländer Collection was on offer at Koller Auctions Zurich, on 17 March 2015, Lot No. 1704.