A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE CUP

In the Japanese Palace inventories, the numbers for red stoneware pieces were accompanied by an R for Roth. Four separate rooms in the palace were dedicated to the display of ‘Saxon porcelain’, two of which were used to display red stoneware. For a discussion of the palace interiors and its three 18th century inventories, see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, "’…a wholly new style of porcelain…’; Lacquer-Style Production at the Meissen Manufactory” in 'Schwartz Porcelain', Museum für Lackkunst December and Schloβ Favorite bei Rastatt 2003-2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2003 (English Edition, Munich, 2004, pp. 73-77).

A cracked example was sold by Christie's Geneva on 14th November 1983, lot 179. A two-handled beaker with an Eisenporzellan finish to the glaze and with handles identical in form to the present lot remains in the Saxon Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (inventory P.E. 1784), and is illustrated by Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger die Erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, Leipzig, 1982, pl. 88.