TEA BOWL AND SAUCER WITH "HAUSMALER" CHINOISERIE Meissen, ca. 1722. The paintwork ca. 1724 by Johann Andreas Lauche in Dresden.

The saucer with a Chinese man smoking a pipe, the tea bowl with a Chinese man holding a lantern. The rim with a purple border. Incised mark // in the foot ring of the saucer and / in the tea bowl.
H 4.7 cm, Ø 13 cm.

Provenance:
- Art Dealer, Heinz Reichert, Munich.
- Christie's London, Centuries of Style, 31 May 2012, Lot No. 635.
- Aristocratic private collection, Southern Germany.

On a teapot which was formerly at Winifred Williams Antiques, Eastbourne in 1960, and is presently in the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, it was possible to identify by the signature in red "Lauche", the rare painting by the Dresden "Hausmaler", illustrated in H. Morley-Fletcher, Meissen Porcelain, 1979 (1971), p. 100; a beaker signed "Lauche fecit Dresden" is in the British Museum, Inv. No. Franks. 121a; and in the Wark Collection, in U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain - The Wark Collection, 2011, p. 544, No. 666-7.