65. A Meissen Hausmaler gold-ground teabowl and saucer, the porcelain early 1720s, the decoration circa 1730-40 Decorated in Augsburg in the Seuter workshop, the saucer reserved with a lobed panel with tooled scrollwork border depicting a lady holding a falcon with a dog to one side and Cupid embracing a seated lady, on a gilt scrollwork bracket, the teabowl with scenes depicting hunters on one side and a fisherman and maid on the reverse, reserved on a burnished gold ground, the teabowl interior gilt, the saucer: 12.4cm diam.; the teabowl: 4.2cm high (2) Provenance The Princes Murat; Dr. Kaufmann, sold at Galerie Stuker, Bern, 21 November 1963, lot 536 (part); With Dr. Andreina Torré, Zürich Literature Ducret, Siegfried, Meißner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, vol. II, 1972, ills. 233a & b and 235 The present lot was 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 teabowls 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. Siegfried Ducret (Meißner Porzellan vol. II, p. 42, no. 123a) attributed the painting on the sugar box and cover to Elisabeth Wald-Aufenwerth, but the decoration of rest of the service to Abraham Seuter. Further pieces from the service are also illustrated in Ducret, Meißner Porzellan, vol. II, ills. 194, 233a and b and 235 (lot ?? in this sale), 236, 247, 258, 260, 263, 284-297 (lot ?? in this sale) and colour plate XII. Another teabowl and saucer from the service was sold by Bonhams London, 6 December 2023, lot 81. The coffee pot from the service is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim. Another teabowl and saucer from the service was sold by Bonhams London, 6 December 2023, lot 81.