Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
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Lot 108

A MEISSEN ARCHED RECTANGULAR BERGLEUTE TEACADDY AND COVER

CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 1,062

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A MEISSEN ARCHED RECTANGULAR BERGLEUTE TEACADDY AND COVER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Painted in the manner of B.G. Häuer, each side with miners and foremen in landscape vignettes, the shoulders and cover with scattered deutsche Blumen, the cover with a flower finial (scratching to enamels, restored chip to corner of base and of shoulder, cover with retouching to gilding along parts of rim, small rim chip, finial with minute chipping)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 13th November 1989, lot 126

Specialist note

See Rainer Slotta et al., Ein fein bergmannig Porcelan, Abbilder vom Bergbau in 'weißem Gold' (Essen, 1999), p. 67 for a part service of similar type (without a teacaddy), and pp. 171-172 for two saucers with similar decoration signed by Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer. A cup bearing the date 1748 and with mining decoration attributed to Häuer is in Fenton House, Hampstead, London (accession no. FEN/C/100, formerly in the Katherine Lady Binning Collection, bequeathed to the National Trust in 1952).