Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 142
A Meissen Hausmaler saucer, circa 1742-44, and two Meissen Hausmaler teabowls and saucers, circa 1750-60
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £937.50 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen Hausmaler saucer, circa 1742-44, and two Meissen Hausmaler teabowls and saucers, circa 1750-60
The saucer painted in Bayreuth in the workshop of J.F. Metzsch by J.C. Glaser with a chinoiserie scene, the teabowls and saucers painted in underglaze-blue and embellished in gilding and enamels in the workshop of F.J. Ferner with flowers and figures, 12.9cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals, painters' marks in underglaze-blue (one saucer and one teabowl with chip to footrim) (5)
Footnotes
Provenance :
The Property of a Lady, sold Christie's London, 30 June 1975, lot 119 (the teabowls and saucers);
With Hoff Antiques, London, acquired in 1987 (the single saucer);
Eveline Newgas Collection, London
Johann Christoph Glaser was a painter at the Metzsch workshop in Bayreuth between 1742-44, before moving to Fürstenberg. See S. Ducret, Fürstenberger Porzellan (1965), II, p. 221, pls. 264 and 265. The same scene appears on a Fürstenberg saucer painted by Glaser, sold by Christie's Geneva, 25 April 1977, lot 58 (part).
