Details
Comprising: two Schwarzlot Böttger saucers, one painted with a lion hunt after Antonio Tempesta, the other with a duck hunt, with men in skiffs brandishing muskets and gathering ducks into a net by the riverbank as dogs give chase; and a Chinese porcelain wine-cup painted with a continuous scene of peasants holding hands as they dance in a line, two musicians playing below a tree nearby, a cluster of cottages in the distance
412 in. (11.3 cm.) diameter, the duck hunting saucer
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 21 February 2005, lot 145 (part, the duck hunt saucer).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 21 November 2005, lot 23 (the wine-cup).
With E&H Manners, London (the lion hunt saucer).
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