A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER from the Clemens August service, painted by C.F. Herold, the teabowl with the crowned Arms supported by two rampant lions on a puce scroll support and an Oriental holding a scroll with the gilt monogram CA and a boy beside a table on a terrace above gilt ombrierte and purple lustre foliate scrolls and diaper panels enclosing an Oriental landscape painted in purpurmalerei, the interior with indianische Blumen, the saucer with an elegant Oriental couple among shrubs holding a garland and pointing towards a marble tablet with the CA monogram, above a similar gilt ombrierte and purple lustre support, the quatrefoil panel with Oriental merchants at discussion on a quay, the underside with three indianische Blumen sprays, the rims with interlocking gilt scrolls (very minor rubbing to saucer), blue crossed swords marks, Dreher's H to teabowl and a star to saucer, circa 1735

Sold for the Scholarship Appeal Fund for West Dean College

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CHINOISERIE TEABOWL AND SAUCER from the Clemens August service, painted by C.F. Herold, the teabowl with the crowned Arms supported by two rampant lions on a puce scroll support and an Oriental holding a scroll with the gilt monogram CA and a boy beside a table on a terrace above gilt ombrierte and purple lustre foliate scrolls and diaper panels enclosing an Oriental landscape painted in purpurmalerei, the interior with indianische Blumen, the saucer with an elegant Oriental couple among shrubs holding a garland and pointing towards a marble tablet with the CA monogram, above a similar gilt ombrierte and purple lustre support, the quatrefoil panel with Oriental merchants at discussion on a quay, the underside with three indianische Blumen sprays, the rims with interlocking gilt scrolls (very minor rubbing to saucer), blue crossed swords marks, Dreher's H to teabowl and a star to saucer, circa 1735

拍品專文

For a list of the surviving pieces of this service, most probably made to commemorate the 35th birthday of Clemens August v. Wittelsbach, Archbishop Elector of Cologne, see Arthur Müller, 'Das Meissner Höroldt-Service für Clemens August, Kurfürst von Köln', Keramos, July 1958; a teabowl and saucer from the O'Byrne collection was sold in these Rooms, 27 November 1961, lot 72; two teabowls and saucers from the Goulburn Collection sold in these Rooms, 1 December 1980, lots 320 and 321; and another sold in our Geneva Rooms, 10 November 1986, lot 181

For a discussion of Clemens August's collection see Erich Köllmann, 'Kurfürst Clemens August von Köln ein Porzellansammler des 18. Jahrhunderts', pp. 19-34, Keramos, August 1961