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Lot 238

A very rare Meissen Hausmaler beaker, circa 1728-30

6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare Meissen Hausmaler beaker, circa 1728-30

Painted by Ignaz Bottengruber, Breslau, depicting Neptune holding a trident and attended by a hippocamp, enclosed by elaborate gilt foliate scrollwork, embellished with a net, shell, coral, fish and birds, reeds and marine trophies, the reverse painted en grisaille with a scene of nymphs with a dolphin, 7.4cm high, impressed .. inside footrim

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 28 June 1993, lot 148

Literature:
M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber, in The Metropolitan Museum Journal 33 (1998), fig. 37;
R. Roos (ed.), Meissen SO-IL, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2011), p. 30

Exhibited:
Amersfoort, Kunsthal KAdE, Meissen SO-IL, 28 May-28 August 2011

From a series depicting the twelve months; for a beaker and saucer from the same set in the Arnhold Collection, New York, see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 323. The author notes (p. 637) that Bottengruber likely was influenced by prints after artists at the French court, such as Berain, Marot and Claude Audran.

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