A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TABLE-BELL AND STAND painted by Christian Friedrich Herold and Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer with Orientals in harbour scenes at discussion with towering rockwork in the distance within an elaborate gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk and Böttger lustre quatrefoil cartouches flanked by groups of Orientals with kettles and cauldrons on gitterwerk and Böttger lustre plinths, the tapering knopped handle with gitterwerk bands and iron-red and purple chinoiserie panels and pendant foliage, the interior of the bell with a border of gilt C-scrolls and anthemion, the stand similarly painted with a central cartouche, the border with purple chinoiseries at the corners, the underside with indianische Blumen, gilt dentil rim, blue crossed swords marks, circa 1730

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE TABLE-BELL AND STAND painted by Christian Friedrich Herold and Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer with Orientals in harbour scenes at discussion with towering rockwork in the distance within an elaborate gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk and Böttger lustre quatrefoil cartouches flanked by groups of Orientals with kettles and cauldrons on gitterwerk and Böttger lustre plinths, the tapering knopped handle with gitterwerk bands and iron-red and purple chinoiserie panels and pendant foliage, the interior of the bell with a border of gilt C-scrolls and anthemion, the stand similarly painted with a central cartouche, the border with purple chinoiseries at the corners, the underside with indianische Blumen, gilt dentil rim, blue crossed swords marks, circa 1730
the bell 12cm. high
the stand 16cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, The Oppenheimer Collection of Meissen Porcelain, April 1927, pl. 96, no. 212 for an example of similar type with a diaper ground

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