718 - MEISSEN

MEISSEN Title: Double-Handled Porcelain Beaker with Gold-Etched Chinoiseries. Date: Ca. 1730 . Designer: Decor Abraham Seuter (attributed), Augsburg. Material: Porcelain, etched gold decor. Measurement: Height 8 cm. Mark: Potter's number on the base. Description: A bell-shaped body with a slightly flared lip rim on a short base. Handles attached to the sides, partially in relief. Decorated on both sides with large-scale, finely etched Chinoiserie scenes flanked by trees on ornamental consoles. On one side, a depiction of a painter with a palette and brush, in front of whom stands a servant holding an unrolled canvas. On the other side in the centre, is a smoking vessel on a tall, altar-like base, flanked by two kneeling or praying Chinese figures and a standing figure with a serving tray. The interior sides are gilt. The scene featuring the painter is a variation on the depiction on the lower bowl signed by Abraham Seuter from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. This shows a Chinese man writing on a board, modelled on the cup painted by Johann Gregorius Höroldt. A similar double-handled cup, also featuring a painter’s scene on one side and a scene of adoration on the other, comes from the former collection of Ernst Schneider and is now part of the Schloss Lustheim collection. Provenance: - Private collection Bavaria. Literature: - Ducret, Sigfried: Meissener Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg 1718 bis um 1750. Volume 1: Goldmalereien und bunte Chinoiserien. Braunschweig 1971, p. 114, nos. 61, 62. - Eikelmann, Renate (ed.): Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloß Lustheim, Munich 2004, p. 421, ill. p. 237 (details), 222 (details), exhibit. cat. no. 91. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Inland: 20.17 Euro plus 3.83 Euro VAT EU: 33.61 Euro plus 6.39 Euro VAT Third country: 63.03 Euro plus 11.98 Euro VAT additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: max. 41.65 Euro over a total invoice amount of 25,000 Euros: 1.8 o/oo USA by individual arrangement after the auction. #Meissen #Germany #Baroque (Louis XIV) #Porcelain.