A BÖTTGER TRAVELLING TEA-SERVICE each piece gilded with various figures within gilt meandering foliage borders, comprising:

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A BÖTTGER TRAVELLING TEA-SERVICE each piece gilded with various figures within gilt meandering foliage borders, comprising:
A depressed globular teapot and cover with a short tapering cylindrical spout and loop handle, with Commedia dell' Arte figures, the shoulder with radiating triangular ornament (spout chipped)
A flared circular slop-bowl of irregular form with fishermen, a huntsman and fowler, the interior with a gallant and companion playing cards (cracked across and restored)
Six teabowls variously decorated with musicians, actors, Commedia dell' Arte figures, the interiors with a bird on a flowering branch (one with two rim chips and three with footrim chips)
Six saucers with Commedia dell'Arte subjects, a horn player with his dog, a gallant and companion with a dancing dog, a man with a chained cheetah (one with footrim chips, another with rim chip), two saucers with Dreher's K, circa 1720, in contemporary green velvet-lined leather travelling case with gilt-metal hinges, lock and carrying handles, leather distressed
the case 46cm. wide

拍品专文

The gilding technique used on this lot is quite different from that normally found on wares decorated in the Seuter workshop at Augsburg. Here the gilding is in flat panels into which the decoration is scratched. In the Seuter workshop the gilt decoration is thickly applied and then engraved and burnished. It is more likely therefore that the gilding on this lot was done at Meissen. This supposition is further reinforced by a comparison with the gilding to be found on Böttger stoneware where the figures are handled in precisely this technique cf. Rolf Sonnemann/Eberhard Wächtler, op. cit., pl. 1/35.

The comedy figures on the present lot are derived from Callot, and are quite clearly too early to be taken from the Riccoboni/Joullain engravings of 1727. The comedy figures depicted on the present lot must surely be the earliest to appear on European porcelain