MEISSEN, BÖTTGER PORCELAIN, SUGAR BOX

MEISSEN, BÖTTGER PORCELAIN, SUGAR BOX

Probably decorated in the Seuter workshop
The porcelain circa 1720, the mounts and decoration circa 1725-35
12.2 cm across, 9.6 cm deep

Decorated in iron-red with scenes of wild animals after prints by Johann Elias Ridinger. There are no signed examples of this type of decoration, however given Ridinger’s close family relationship to the Seuter family, it seems likely that these are from the Seuter workshop.[1]

Another factor that would suggest an attribution to the Seuter workshop is that we find this type of decoration on an eagle teapot. A shape that seems to have been made exclusively for Augsburg decorators.

Footnotes:

[1] See Ducret 1971, vol I, p. 36.

Literature:

Manners 2024
‘E & H Manners, ‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 30

Price: £2,800