A Meissen sugar bowl and cover, circa 1730 After engravings by Johann Schmischeck, painted with two hounds chasing a stag surrounded by elaborate coloured brackets and scrolls, the cover rim with an underglaze-blue band with gilt scrollwork, 12cm long; 9.5cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (cover restored) (2) Fußnoten The decoration is based on engravings by Johann Schmischeck (1585-1650) in the Neües Groteschgen-Büchlein, published in 1630. A similar teabowl and saucer in the Wark collection is illustrated by U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection (2011), no. 637. The slop bowl from the service is in the Seattle Art Museum, published by Julie Emerson et al., Porcelain Stories (2000), pl. 14.14. Another teabowl and saucer from the service was sold in these rooms as part of the Delphinium Collection, 20 March 2013, lot 2. Two teabowls and saucers from a service with similar decoration but with puce camaieu roundels in the border decoration, also based on engravings by Johann Schmischeck, are in the Wark Collection (no. 636) and in the Victoria & Albert Museum, inv. no. 202&A-1854, respectively. A pot without cover from the service is in the British Museum (1955,0708.1).
A Meissen sugar bowl and cover, circa 1730 After engravings by Johann Schmischeck, painted with two hounds chasing a stag surrounded by elaborate coloured brackets and scrolls, the cover rim with an underglaze-blue band with gilt scrollwork, 12cm long; 9.5cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (cover restored) (2) Fußnoten The decoration is based on engravings by Johann Schmischeck (1585-1650) in the Neües Groteschgen-Büchlein, published in 1630. A similar teabowl and saucer in the Wark collection is illustrated by U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection (2011), no. 637. The slop bowl from the service is in the Seattle Art Museum, published by Julie Emerson et al., Porcelain Stories (2000), pl. 14.14. Another teabowl and saucer from the service was sold in these rooms as part of the Delphinium Collection, 20 March 2013, lot 2. Two teabowls and saucers from a service with similar decoration but with puce camaieu roundels in the border decoration, also based on engravings by Johann Schmischeck, are in the Wark Collection (no. 636) and in the Victoria & Albert Museum, inv. no. 202&A-1854, respectively. A pot without cover from the service is in the British Museum (1955,0708.1).
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