Live Auction 14963THE COLLECTOR: English and European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics & Silver
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BÖTTGER PORCELAIN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER
Lot 764 The West Collection

A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BÖTTGER PORCELAIN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720-1725, DECORATED CIRCA 1735 IN AUGSBURG WORKSHOP OF ABRAHAM SEUTER, THE MOUNTS OF SIMILAR DATE WITH EA MARKS FOR ELIAS ADAM

Closed18 October 2017

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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BÖTTGER PORCELAIN HAUSMALEREI COFFEE-POT AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720-1725, DECORATED CIRCA 1735 IN AUGSBURG WORKSHOP OF ABRAHAM SEUTER, THE MOUNTS OF SIMILAR DATE WITH EA MARKS FOR ELIAS ADAM
Painted after Watteau in Schwarzlot, the hands and faces with flesh tints, with scenes from the Commedia dell'Arte, one side with Harlequin and Columbine beside Pierrot, the other with Mezzetin playing a guitar among other figures, within shaped cartouches outlined in silver and with silver Laub-und Bandelwerk
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high, overall

Property of a Lady from European Private Collection; Christie's, Geneva, 16 May 1994, lot 67.

Specialist note

For the engraved sources, prints adapted by Simmonneau l'aine and Tomassin fils after Antoine Watteau, 'Les habits sont italiens' (or alternatively titled 'Riez Chantez, Dancez, belle et verte jeunesse') and 'Sous un habit de Mezetin...' respectively, see S. Ducret, Meissener Porzellan, vol. II, nos. 155, 176 and 187 and pl. XI. The hot-milk jug and cover from the service for which the present pot was made is known in a private Midwest Collection.