A Documentary Meissen Hausmaler Teabowl and Saucer, circa 1737, each covered in a brown glaze and decorated in gilt probably by Joseph Hackl of Augsburg with continuous scenes of amusing chinoiseries including oriental musicians, all within scroll borders, the well of the teabowl with an exotic bird and the exterior of the saucer with flowers, each base inscribed in brown with JH monogram and 37 within double circles This signature is attributed to Joseph Hackl of Augs-burg, whose presence in Augsburg is apparently un-documented; however, he is known in Göggingen near Augsburg in 1749 and was described as an "Augsburger Bürger und Bildhauer" • For a discus- sion see S. Ducret's article "Joseph Hackl, Hausmaler in der Seuterschen Werkstatt in Augsburg", ', Schweizer Keramikfreunde, 11th December 1948, p. 12, ills. 4 and 5, who publishes a similar cup and saucer with the same signature and silvered decoration. A similar teabowl and saucer with gilt decoration of the same type, also signed, is in the British Museum, see the Exhibition Catalogue, "Documentary Continental Ceramics from the British Museum", International Ge-ramics Fair London 1985, ps. 34 and 35, no. 21. As per photograph gilding rubbed as on part of the rim of the saucer as well as interior rim of the tea bowel Size: bowl. 43Hx 75x75w mm Saucer 20h 128x128w mm