Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND TWO SAUCERS
Lot 25

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND TWO SAUCERS

CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION EITHER CIRCA 1725 OR AT BAYREUTH, CIRCA 1737-50

Closed29 November 2011

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI TEABOWL AND TWO SAUCERS
CIRCA 1720, THE DECORATION EITHER CIRCA 1725 OR AT BAYREUTH, CIRCA 1737-50
Painted in the manner associated with Danhöffer, the teabowl with an Oriental beside a bird on a continuous terrace with flowering shrubs, one saucer with an Oriental carrying a vase on his head, the other with an Oriental in a long-sleeved robe, both on terraces with flowering plants, the gilt band borders with scrolls and flowerheads (second saucer with section from rim broken in two pieces and repaired, chip to rim, slight rubbing to rims) (3)

Specialist note

It still remains unclear as to whether decoration of this type was executed independently of the factory at Bayreuth by Danhöffer or by Busch, or if it was produced at the factory. For a full discussion of this subject, see B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Köln, Vol. VI, pp. 89-93. Also see S. Ducret, 'Johann Philipp Danhoffer oder Christian Daniel Busch?', Keramos, No. 17, 1962, pp. 19-26. A teabowl and saucer, formerly in the Dr. Byrnes Collection, decorated with a figure (on the saucer) very similar to the one illustrated on the right here was sold in these