Lot 1210 - A218 The Dr Peter Ducret Collection - Thursday, 17. September 2026, 02.00 PM
TABATIÈRE
Augsburg, circa 1740–50. Painting attributed to the Seuter workshop.
Enamel with gilt-copper mounts. Rectangular bombé form. Painted on all sides with woodcut-style floral decoration. The interior of the cover with a park landscape with a palace complex and staffage figures. Unmarked.
8 × 6.3 × 3.6 cm.
Cracks in the enamel.
Provenance:
- Heinz Reichert Art Gallery, Munich.
- Peter Ducret Collection, Kilchberg; acquired from the above in 1980.
According to Ducret’s documentation, the painting is attributable to Bartholomäus Seuter (1678–1754). Like his brother Abraham (1689–1747), Seuter worked as a Hausmaler, particularly on Meissen porcelain and faience. Like other Hausmaler, such as Bechdolff in Ellwangen, he also painted enamel boxes. Joseph Hackl, who apparently likewise worked as a Hausmaler in Seuter’s workshop in Augsburg (S. Ducret, KFS 1948, no. 11, p. 12), wrote in 1747/48 that his neighbor Bartholomäus Seuter and his two brothers, by then deceased, had been producing such gallantry wares and "Grotten-Arbeiten" without competition for some thirty years. Comparable floral decoration is known on Augsburg faience tankards (Ducret 1972, figs. 2–7; digit 2005, nos. 21/22).
CHF 800 / 1 000 | (€ 820 / 1 030)
Sold for CHF 813 (including buyer's premium)