A Meissen porcelain saucer with a man smoking a pipe - image-1

Lot 1439 Dα

A Meissen porcelain saucer with a man smoking a pipe

Auction 1096 - overview Cologne
17.11.2017, 10:00 - Deorative Arts
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain saucer with a man smoking a pipe

An early thin-walled saucer painted with a genre scene in puce and iron red to the centre, with a silver lace border. Unmarked. Retouches to silver paint. D 12.5 cm.
Ca. 1720, the decor attributed to Abraham Seuter, Augsburg, 2nd quarter 18th C.

Provenance

Former collection of Dr. Andreina Torré.
Private collection, South Germany.

Literature

Illus. in: Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Bd. II, Braunschweig 1972, illus. 232.
Similarly painted works in the Wark Collection (Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, London 2011, no. 673).