A Meissen porcelain saucer with a man smoking a pipe

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

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).

Lot 1439 Dα

Estimate:
4.000 € - 6.000 €