Lot 64*
A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover, circa 1725-30, the decoration circa 1740-50
7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,500 inc. premium
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A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover, circa 1725-30, the decoration circa 1740-50
The cover moulded with acanthus leaves and the teapot applied with flowering branches, decorated probably in the workshop of F.F. Mayer, Pressnitz, heightened in enamels and gilding, with two small landscape vignettes flanking the handle and spout mask, gilt foliate scrollwork to the handle, rim and spout, the cover with a bird and two flowers and a gilt scrollwork border to the rim, 14cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised / inside footrim (some wear to gilding, minute losses to spout) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland
This style of decoration is usually attributed to the workshop F.F. Meyer, Pressnitz, but a Saxon Hausmaler may also be a possibility, see B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Europäisches Porzellan (1980), cat. no. 83.
