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MEISSEN Title: Porcelain sugar bowl with gold-etched chinoiserie motifs. Date: ca. 1720/1730. Designer: Seuter Workshop, Augsburg. Material: Porcelain, gold-etched decoration. Dimensions: Height 6 cm, length 12 cm. Mark: Luster mark on the bottom. Description: Oval in shape. A bulbous, flattened body with a strongly rounded lid. On the long sides of the body, chinoiserie scenes featuring tree backdrops on ornamental consoles. On one side, a Chinese man seated in the center, flanked by two kneeling Chinese men; above them, in the sky, a flying dragon. On the opposite side, a group of Chinese men seated at a table. Between the scenes are depictions of birds on branches. On the lid is a depiction of a Chinese nobleman in a palanquin, carried by two Chinese men. Based on an engraving by Martin Engelbrecht from the series “Habitus et Mores Sinesium.” Various rim decorations. The composition of the decoration follows the repertoire of motifs developed by Abraham and Bartholomäus Seuter. Provenance: - Private collection, Bavaria. Literature: - Ducret, Sigfried: Meissen Porcelain Painted in Augsburg, 1718 to ca. 1750. Volume 1: Gold Paintings and Colorful Chinoiserie. Braunschweig 1971, p. 136, no. 103; p. 193, no. 215 (body); pp. 222–223, nos. 278, 279, 280, 281 (lid). 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) #Sugar Bowl #Porcelain.