The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung
The Ehlen Collection - Eine Rheinische Porzellansammlung
Three Meissen Hausmaler Saucers, Circa 1730 | Drei Meissen Hausmaler Untertassen, um 1730
No reserve
Lot Closed
March 6, 02:28 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
painted, en camaïeu brun, probably in the Aufenwerth workshop, Augsburg, with a toper smoking a pipe, a figure standing by a small kiln, possibly an alchemist, and a female figure standing before palms, wearing a feathered headdress, possibly emblematic of the Americas, within an elaborate gilt scroll border with diaper cartouches, one with incised / to inside edge of foot, another with incised X
Diameter 4 7/8 in.
12.4 cm.
Horst Reber, Eine Rheinische Porzellan-Sammlung, Darmstadt, 2006, Vol. I, pp. 32-3.
A silvered and purple camaïeu Hausmaler saucer which uses the same unidentified engraving source of the Toper seen on a saucer in the present lot, is illustrated in Siegfried Ducret, Meißener Porzellan, Braunschweig, 1972, p. 174, fig. 232.