A Meissen hausmaler teabowl and saucer, c.1720, painted in Augsburg probably by Anne Elizabeth Wald

A Meissen hausmaler teabowl and saucer, c.1720, painted in Augsburg probably by Anne Elizabeth Wald (née Auffenwerth) c.1745, with panels of European figures seated playing musical instruments and at other pursuits between elaborate trellis borders in gilt, puce and red, the saucer broken and restuck, 12.8cm. (2)

Illustrated: Siegfried Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, vol. II, nos. 117 and 117A (the teabowl); and no.120 (the saucer). Ducret describes the saucer as the stand to a teapot also illustrated (nos.108, 110, 115 and 116). Ducret illustrates that the teapot is after designs by Martin Engelbrecht, latterly engraved by Johann Friedrich Probst.

Provenance: both pieces formerly sold at Lepke, Berlin, 5th February 1918, lot 66.