CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS AUGSBURG BY ELIAS ADAM

细节

A Böttger Hausmalerei silver-gilt mounted coffee-pot and cover
Circa 1725, the mounts Augsburg by Elias Adam
Of tapering pear-shaped form with domed cover, with flat gilt button finial, gilt pinched lip and S-scroll handle, boldly painted with fantastic insects and botanical specimens between gilt borders edged with C-scrolls (some re-touching to gilding, rubbing to top rim and to lower part of lip, some flaking to enamels)
9¾ in. (25 cm.) high

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拍品专文

No similar piece is illustrated by Ducret, Meissener Porzellan Bemalt in Augsburg (Brunswick 1972). The decoration is derived from a botanical graphic source. The closest parallels are to be found on faience pieces painted by Seuter before porcelain from Meissen became available. It is therefore probable that the present lot represents the transition from decoration on faience to decoration on porcelain in the Seuter workshops.

Cf. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, 'Graphic Sources for Meissen Porcelain: Origins of the Print collection in the Meissen archives', Metropolitan Museum Journal, No. 31 (1996), p. 100 for a Meissen coffee-pot sold by Sotheby's, Baden-Baden sale, 7th October 1995, lot 1296, with similar decoration derived from an engraving by Jacob Hoefnagel from his Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii Hoefnagelii (Frankfurt 1592). She points out that this work was so popular that it was issued in various forms up to the 18th Century, and it is possible that the decoration of the present lot is dervied from such a source.