690 - MEISSEN

MEISSEN Title: Lidded Porcelain Box with Gold-Etched Chinoiseries. Date: ca. 1720/30. Designer: Seuter Workshop, Augsburg. Material: Porcelain, etched gold decoration. Dimensions: Height 8.5 cm. Mark: Old collection label. Description: Slightly molded, domed base. A round, straight-sided body in cross-section with shell-shaped handles on the sides. A domed lid with a spherical finial. The sides are decorated all around with multi-figure compositions: on one side, a Chinese man seated at a table with attendants; on the opposite side, a garden scene. In between, branches with birds A lidded box of the same shape and with a similar decoration comes from the former Ernst Schneider collection and is now in the Schloss Lustheim collection (inventory number ES 1695 a-b) Provenance: - Private collection in Bavaria, formerly the Britzke Collection. Bibliography: - Exhibition catalog: Meissen Porcelain in the Britzke Collection, 1709–1765. Segovia 2009, p. 34. The lidded box offered here is depicted and described in this publication. - Ducret, Sigfried: Meissen Porcelain Painted in Augsburg from 1718 to c. 1750. Volume 1: Gold Paintings and Colorful Chinoiserie. Braunschweig 1971, p. 263, cat. no. 356. Cf. a similar lidded box here, resting on lion’s paws and featuring hand-painted designs in color. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Domestic: 18.49 euros plus 3.51 euros VAT EU: 26.89 euros plus 5.11 euros VAT Third country: 54.62 euros plus 10.38 euros VAT Additional shipping insurance Shipping insurance up to a total invoice amount of 25,000 euros: max. 41.65 euros For a total invoice amount exceeding 25,000 euros: 1.8 per thousand Shipping to the U.S. by individual arrangement after the auction. #Meissen #Germany #Baroque (Louis XIV) #Porcelain.