CIRCA 1728, DREHER'S .. TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE SAUCER
CIRCA 1728, DREHER'S .. TO FOOTRIM
Painted by J.G. Höroldt with a seated lady nursing her baby with a figure at her side before a flaming stove beneath a willow tree within an ogival Böttger lustre purple and gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouche within an elaborate gilt interlocking C-scroll border (some very minor wear to gilding of well)
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

This unusual scene is derived from the lady and infant at the bottom left-hand corner of sheet 2 in Höroldt's Schulz Codex illustrated left. A similar scene appears on a tankard in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (Inv. Nr. 35,129) which is illustrated by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, 'Gestochene Quellen Für Frühe Höroldt-Malereien' Keramos No. 161 (1998), p. 25, where she also illustrates a Chinese wood-engraving which shows a very similar scene. The mother's raised bare foot on the stool does not appear on either the tankard, the Chinese engraving or the Schulz Codex drawing.

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