CIRCA 1725, GILDER'S 4. MARK TO BOTH, THE MOUNTS STAMPED FOR THE WORKSHOP OF ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG

The style of the figure painting and the treatment of the trees suggests the hand of the painter Philipp Ernst Schindler; for two tea bowls and saucers with Augsburg mounts, painted in a similar manner see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, London, 2008, pp. 304-5, no. 78 a, b. A documentary saucer, painted with chinoiserie figures and signed 'PES', is illustustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pl. 60, no. 220.