Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
AN EARLY MEISSEN HAUSMALER TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1725-30
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
AN EARLY MEISSEN HAUSMALER TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1725-30
decorated in Augsburg, probably in the Auffenwerth workshop by Anna Elizabeth Wald, with quatrefoil panels of Chinoiserie figures panels reserved on a gold ground tooled with vine and floral meanders, the interior of the teabowl painted with a bird in a branch and a gilt scrollwork border at rim, incised Dreher's mark / to inside edge of footrims.
Diameter of saucer: 4⅞ in.
12.4 cm
Christie's London, June 5, 1996, lot 467
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 283, p. 587, illus.
Two further teabowls and saucers from the same service as the present lot are illustrated in Siegfried Ducret, Meißner Porzellan, bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Band I: Goldmalereien und Bunte Chinoiserien, Brunswick, 1971, p. 260, abbs. 350-351, which the author attributes to the hand of Elizabeth Anna Wald (sic); the latter example was sold at Christie's London, March 31, 2008, lot 165.