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A very rare Meissen Hausmaler beaker and saucer, circa 1728-30
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
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A very rare Meissen Hausmaler beaker and saucer, circa 1728-30
Painted by Ignaz Bottengruber, Breslau, the beaker depicting Mars in full armour holding a sword and shield, attended by a horse, enclosed by elaborate gilt foliate scrollwork embellished with military trophies, the reverse painted en grisaille with a battle scene, the saucer similarly decorated with Minerva enclosed by gilt scrollwork embellished with a Medusa head, various trophies, owls and a monkey, above another small monochrome scene, the beaker: 7.6cm high; the saucer: 12.5cm diam. (2)
Footnotes
Literature:
U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 72
Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997
From a series depicting the twelve months; a beaker and saucer from the same series, formerly in the Arnhold Collection and now in the Frick Museum, New York, is published by 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, for which see D.O. Kisluk-Grosheide, "Cutting up Berchems, Watteaus and Audrans": a Lacca Povera Secretary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Metropolitan Museum Journal 31 (1996), figs. 28-33. Another beaker and saucer from the same series was in the Margarete Oppenheim Collection (sold at Julius Böhler, Munich, 18-20 May 1936, lot 931; one is in the Museo civico in Turin (published by G. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler (1925), I, ill. 146; and a single beaker was sold in these Rooms, 6 December 2018, lot 238.