Precious Porcelain

Meissen Porcelain Gilt Hausmaler Beaker with Hunters, Sueter Workshop, 1720

£1,495.00

Decorated in the Seuter workshop in Augsburg in polychrome enamels and gilding, painted with scenes depicting hunters within a quadrilobed reserve against the burnished gold ground; One Scene of a standing hunter holding a hare with a resting hound, the reverse of huntress holding a leashed hound to chase the game and (if you look closely) a smaller dog to perhaps flush the game from the burrow.

part of a cased tea and coffee service that was sold at auction in Bern in 1963, comprising: a coffee pot, a teapot, a waste bowl, a sugar box, a tea canister, six double-handled beakers, six tea bowls and six saucers. According to the 1963 catalogue the case had the crown of Saxony on the cover and the catalogue notes that the service may have been a gift from the Saxon court - probably to Naples - after which it may have belonged to Joachim Murat, and was later in the possession of the Princes Murat.

A Pair of these are coming up for sale at Bonhams, Paris April 8th 2025 lot 66

Size: 8cm

Condition: minor restoration to one handle