A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CHINOISERIE SMALL ECUELLE, AND A COVER AND A STAND

CIRCA 1730

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A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CHINOISERIE SMALL ECUELLE, AND A COVER AND A STAND
Circa 1730
Each piece associated, painted in the style of J.G. Höroldt with Chinoiserie vignettes based on drawings from the Schulz Codex, the ecuelle with single figures in a garden reserved within gilt and Böttger luster cartouches issuing iron-red and salmon plumes; the cover with single figures gardening, cooking and making tea in a continuous frieze; the saucer with a seated figure playing a game with a squirrel, a servant carrying an infant towards him at the right, reserved within a Gittlewerk cartouche, the border with a wide band of similar gilt strapwork
6½in. (16.5cm.) diam., the saucer (2)

Lot Essay

See Mary Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, 1984, p. 17 and cat. no. 167 for a saucer from the Queen Marie Service painted with the same scene as that on the present stand, both based on plate 67 of the Schulz Codex.

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