CIRCA 1724-25

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN BALUSTER COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1724-25
Painted with figures on shores before galleons and warships within elaborate oval cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels issuing gilt and iron-red scrolling foliage, with insects, birds and indianische Blumen below the spout and around the handle, the cover painted with a bird and indianische Blumen
8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A part-tea and coffee-service of circa 1722-25 with related scenes is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch (Ed.), et al., Triumph of the Blue Swords, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Exhibition Catalogue, 2010, p. 213, cat. no. 101, where the author notes that the source for the scenes are the engravings of Stefano della Bella from the ‘Marines’ series. The service Dr. Pietsch illustrates is similarly painted with charmingly naïve figures in coastal landscapes with galleons, and he attributes the painting to Johann George Heintze, who joined J.G. Höroldt’s workforce as an apprentice in 1720, aged fifteen.

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