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A Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30 image 1
A Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30 image 2
Lot 77

A Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30

18 June 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1720-30

Decorated in Augsburg, possibly by Abraham Seuter, each with a scene in purple monochrome and iron-red flesh tones depicting three figures beneath a tree and a lady writing a letter accompanied by a gentleman, within shaped gilt strapwork cartouches, the saucer with a quatrelobe gilt-edged panel edged with scrollwork, the teabowl interior gilt, impressed .. to teabowl and incised / inside footrim of saucer (2)

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Provenance:
A Highly Important Private Collection of Meissen and Continental Porcelain, Christie's London, 11 December 2007, lot 83

The scene on the teabowl may be based on an engraving by Albrecht Schmidt from the pattern book "Libenter Stude [...]", published in Augsburg around 1710-20, for which see S. Ducret, Meißner Porzellan, vol. II (1972), ill. 216, and M. Cassidy-Geiger, "Verknüpfungen herstellen", in Exotische Welten (2010), ill. 16. A similarly decorated slop bowl, probably from the same service, is illustrated by Ducret, col. pl. VIII.

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