Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 19*
A Meissen Hausmaler gold-ground oval sugar bowl and cover, the porcelain early 1720s, decorated 1730-40
2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A Meissen Hausmaler gold-ground oval sugar bowl and cover, the porcelain early 1720s, decorated 1730-40
Decorated in Augsburg in the Seuter workshop, perhaps by Elisabeth Wald, with pairs of figures within four shaped reserves against the burnished gold ground, the cover with a lady holding a fan attended by a man with a flower basket and a servant, 12cm across, 6.4cm high, painted "S." in lustre to the base, (restored chip to rim, retouching to enamels) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Princes Murat;
Dr. Kaufmann, sold at Galerie Stuker, Bern, 21 November 1963, lot 536 (part);
With Dr. Andreina Torré, Zürich
Literature:
Ducret, Siegfried, Meißner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, vol. II, 1972, ills. 123a-d
The present lot was part of a cased tea and coffee service that was sold at auction in Bern in 1963, comprising: a coffee pot, a teapot, a waste bowl, a sugar box, a tea canister, six double-handled beakers, six teabowls and six saucers. According to the 1963 catalogue the case had the crown of Saxony on the cover and the catalogue notes that the service may have been a gift from the Saxon court - probably to Naples - after which it may have belonged to Joachim Murat, and was later in the possession of the Princes Murat.
Siegfried Ducret (Meißner Porzellan, vol. II, p. 42, no. 123a) attributed the painting on this sugar box and cover to Elisabeth Wald-Aufenwerth, but the decoration of rest of the service to Abraham Seuter. Further pieces from the service are also illustrated in Ducret, Meißner Porzellan, vol. II, ills. 194, 233a and b and 235, 236, 247, 258, 260, 263, 284-297 and colour plate XII. The coffee pot from the service is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim. A teabowl and saucers from the service were sold by Bonhams London, 6 December 2023, lot 81; and another was sold by Bonhams Paris, 8 April 2025, lot 65.