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43. A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover painted with Wattea…
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43. A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover painted with Wattea…
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
43. A Meissen Hausmaler teapot and cover painted with Watteau scenes, circa 1723
Decorated in the Seuter workshop in Augsburg, painted in Schwarzlot and iron-red flesh tones with a group of Italian Comedy players in landscapes, within silver scroll- and strapwork cartouches, the cover similarly decorated in silver strapwork, the silver spout with mascaroon terminal, 11.8cm high (2)
Provenance
Georg Tillmann Collection, Hamburg (by 1925)
Literature
Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, Leipzig, 1925, vol. 1, p. 123, no. 97
A similar teapot painted with the same scene, based on the engraving "Sous un habit de Mezetin" by Henri Simon Thomassin after Watteau, is in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum (S. Ducret, Meißner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, vol. II, 1972, ills. 176 and 177).
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