1730-1735, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS, EVERY PIECE WITH GILT V. MARK

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A Meissen Kauffahrteiszenen coffee and tea service
1730-1735, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords, every piece with gilt v. mark
The painting attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold, gilt and painted in colours with merchants at various pursuits on quaysides before distant buildings and ships, and with farmers in various landscapes, within shaped cartouches with scrolls and manganese-red Hotifs, alternating with Indianische Blumen, the borders with gilt Régence ornamental motifs, comprising: a baluster coffee pot with scroll handle and pointed spout, domed cover with ball finial, 25.5cm high, a baluster milk jug with pointed handle and spout, flat cover with cone finial, 15cm high, a sugar bowl with slightly domed cover and triple-branch finial, 13cm high, two small globular teapots with pointed handle, straight spout, flat cover with ball finial, 8.5cm high, two rectangular teacaddies, cylindrical cover with cone finial, 13cm high, a slop bowl with slightly flaring rim, the interior with a Purpurmalerei harbour scene within a shaped gilt and manganese-red cartouche with arabesques, 16.5cm diam., a teabowl and saucer, the Purpurmalerei interior in manganese-red with a harbour scene within a double line band (various damages) (9)

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Lot Essay

Christian Friedrich Herold signed a snuff-box which he had painted at home. His style can be recognised by the contrast between the fore- and background reminiscent of stage-settings.

Cf. S. Ducret, The Colour Treasury of 18th Century Porcelain (Oxford 1976), p. 15 fig.11 for an example of a baluster coffee pot, painted by C.F. Herold.
Dr. E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century, Volume I (London 1972), pp.451-467 for comparable examples of harbour and shipping scenes.

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