Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
Style: Silver, Ceramics, Furniture
A MEISSEN HAUSMALER COFFEE POT AND COVER CIRCA 1725, WITH GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTS, ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1724-28
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A MEISSEN HAUSMALER COFFEE POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, WITH GERMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTS, ELIAS ADAM, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1724-28
decorated in Augsburg, possibly by Bartholomäus Seuter, the body applied in low relief with flowering branches picked out in green, blue and gilding, painted with birds perching in branches and insects, with gilt scroll borders at the rims, the mounts with stamped town mark for Augsburg, EA for Elias Adam
height 7¼ in.
18.4 cm
An oval sugar bowl and cover decorated in this manner and likely from the same service was in the Collection of the Antique Porcelain Company of New York, sold at Sotheby's New York, May 24, 2007, lot 337. A tea and coffee service with similar colored applied branches with gilt chinoiserie vignettes was in the Collection of Dr. Wilhelm Dosquet, sold (anonymously) by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, May 19-21, 1941, lot 613. An exceptional early Meissen jug painted with related bird specimens attributed to Bartholomäus Seuter was in the Collection of Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky, sold at Christie's New York, October 30, 1993, lot 12.