Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
Lot 31
A Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1725-30
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,167.50 inc. premium
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Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
A Meissen Hausmaler teabowl and saucer, circa 1725-30
Decorated in Augsburg by Barholomäus Seuter in gilding, the teabowl and underside of the saucer with vignettes of Chinoiserie figures engaged at various pursuits, the rims with gilt borders edged with foliate motifs, the interior of the teabowl, well of the saucer and footrims gilt (minor rubbing) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Head of a European Royal House, sold Christie's Geneva, 7 June 1968, lot 109 (a pair);
With M. & G. Ségal, Basel
A similar teabowl and saucer attributed to Bartholomäus Seuter, also from the collection of the former King Umberto of Italy and probably originally in the possession of Vittorio Amadeo II of Sardinia, is published by S. Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, vol. I (1971), ill. 252.
