Painted in iron-red and schwarzlot with Apollo and Coronis, the teabowl with a castle by a river, the interior with Coronis and her lover.

In Ovid’s version of the myth, a raven informs Apollo that his lover, Coronis, has been unfaithful and enraged he shoots her. Not wanting his unborn child to die, he delivered the boy by caesarean section naming him Asclepius and taught him about medicinal herbs.

Engraved by Johann Wilhelm Baur, ‘Ovidii Theatrum’, Published Nűrnberg 1685

The image is probably taken from an illustration by Johann Wilhelm Baur for his ‘Ovidii Theatrum’, Published Nűrnberg in1685.

Palazzo Madama, Turin

It is interesting to note that the same scene of Apollo and Coronis is also known on a Chinese teabowl with a matching saucer in the Palazzo Madama, Turin, with the arms of the Kolowrat-Schwarzenberg family[i], the Preissler’s patron. It is also known on a beaker in the Victoria and Albert Museum.[ii]

Condition:
Some wear to enamels on saucer

 Provenance:
The Müller-Frei Collection, Koller Auction, Tuesday, 16. June 2020

Literature:

 Manners 2024:
‘E & H Manners, ‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 15

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[i] We are grateful to Cristina Maritano for this information.

[ii] V&A accession no. 445-1869

Price: £14,500.00