718 - MEISSEN

MEISSEN Title: Double-Handled Porcelain Beaker with Gold-Etched Chinoiserie Motifs. Date: ca. 1730. Designer: Decor by Abraham Seuter (attributed), Augsburg. Material: Porcelain, gold-etched decoration. Dimensions: Height 8 cm. Mark: Potter’s number on the base. Description: A bell-shaped body with a slightly flared 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 center, 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 gilded. 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, modeled after 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. Bibliography: - Ducret, Sigfried: Meissen Porcelain Painted in Augsburg, 1718 to c. 1750. Volume 1: Gold Paintings and Colorful Chinoiserie. Braunschweig 1971, p. 114, nos. 61, 62. - Eikelmann, Renate (ed.): 18th-Century Meissen Porcelain. The Ernst Schneider Foundation at Schloss Lustheim, Munich 2004, p. 421, ill. p. 237 (details), 222 (details), exhibit. cat. no. 91. Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Domestic: 20.17 euros plus 3.83 euros VAT EU: 33.61 euros plus 6.39 euros VAT Third country: 63.03 euros plus 11.98 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.