Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
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Lot 145

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND A SAUCER

CIRCA 1720-25, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER

Closed12 May 2010

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI GOLD-GROUND TWO-HANDLED BEAKER AND A SAUCER
CIRCA 1720-25, THE AUGSBURG DECORATION SLIGHTLY LATER
Painted by Abraham Seuter, one side of the beaker reserved with a scholar in a library, the other with an alchemist in his workshop, a kiln beyond, within tooled scrollwork cartouches, the saucer with a quatrefoil silvered panel reserved with Columbine between Harlequin and Pantalone, a cherub minstrel and a dog (beaker with replacement handle, saucer with a small restored rim chip and two very small restored rim chips, slight flaking to enamel, silver oxidised) (2)

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, Hamburg, sale Sotheby's, London, 9th October 1961, lot 680 (saucer)
Dr. Kaufmann, Berne, sale Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, 1963 (presumably both)
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 9th November 1987, lot 87 (both)
Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson Collection, Orlando, Florida, sale Christie's, London, 1st June 1992, lot 12

Specialist note

See S. Ducret, ibid (1972), Vol. II, p. 47, where he notes that the beaker is from the 'Berner Service'. Ducret illustrates other pieces from the service in figs. 234-236, 245, 247, 258, 260 and 262-263. He also illustrates (p. 159, fig. 192) another beaker painted with the same scene of a scholar as on the present lot, and he illustrates Ridinger's engraving 'Das Gesicht' (The Face) which Seuter used to decorate the beakers (see fig. 193).