A Meissen porcelain tea bowl and saucer with depictions of ruins
The tea bowl painted with figures and ruins, the well of the saucer with a large scene. Unmarked. Two vertical cracks, minor rim chips.
The porcelain China, the decoration Hildesheim, attributed to August Ernst von dem Busch, ca. 1750 - 60.
These diamond etched motifs are generally attributed to the Hildesheim canon August Ernst von dem Busch (1704 - 1769), son of a princely court councillor, on the basis of several pieces signed and dated by him. Pazaurek suggests that he learned this technique from a clergyman in Antwerp. Pazaurek also mentions that Busch did not work only on Meissen porcelain. His successor, the canon Johann Gottfried Kratzberg, whose works are signed and dated between 1745 and 1775, is thought to have exclusively decorated Fürstenberg porcelain.
Provenance
Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.
Literature
Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Berlin-Munich 2018, illus. 100.
For more on this artist see Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. 2, Leipzig 1925/reprint Stuttgart 1971, p. 407 ff., with copious examples from the British Museum in London and the Busch family collection in Hildesheim.
Cf. Gielke, Meissener Porzellan des 18., und 19. Jahrhunderts Bestandskatalog des Grassimuseums Leipzig/ Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Leipzig 2003, no. 257 f.
Cf. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 -50, New York-London 2008, no. 336.
Cf. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 685 ff.