A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN WOCHENTERRINE AND COVER of hemispherical form and with gilt angular handles and flat rim, gilt in the Augsburg workshop of Abraham Seuter with groups of Orientals taking tea and by a table with flasks and jars, an Oriental with two rabbits on a lead and with a duck among flowering shrubs and grasses beneath a border of gilt scrolls and strapwork, terminating on three short legs, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated and with gilt knob finial, the interior richly gilt (two feet and rim of cover with minute chip), circa 1725

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A BÖTTGER GOLDCHINESEN WOCHENTERRINE AND COVER of hemispherical form and with gilt angular handles and flat rim, gilt in the Augsburg workshop of Abraham Seuter with groups of Orientals taking tea and by a table with flasks and jars, an Oriental with two rabbits on a lead and with a duck among flowering shrubs and grasses beneath a border of gilt scrolls and strapwork, terminating on three short legs, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated and with gilt knob finial, the interior richly gilt (two feet and rim of cover with minute chip), circa 1725
16cm. diam.

Literature

Siegfried Ducret, (1971), Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, no. 219

Lot Essay

Cf. Siegfried Ducret, (1971), ibid, nos. 72-79 for similar decoration from the same engraved source; Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, pl. 3, no. 15; Stefan Bursche, op. cit., no. 135; and a similar example sold Sotheby's, 21 October 1980, lot 104

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