THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1725, THE STAND WITH DREHER'S MARK FOR REHSCHUH, PAINTED BY JOHANN GREGOR HÖROLDT, THE MOUNTS UNMARKED BUT FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED MEISSEN TWO-HANDLED ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND
The porcelain circa 1725, the stand with Dreher's mark for Rehschuh, painted by Johann Gregor Höroldt, the mounts unmarked but first half of the 18th century
Painted on the front and reverse of the circular bowl and in the centre of the stand with Chinoiserie figures watching birds by a stream, playing with naked children, or jousting at exotic birds, each reserved within Böttger lustre cartouches enriched in iron-red and gold, the underside of the stand with concentric red lines, the cover with gilt twig handle centering three chinoiserie vignettes within paired concentric red lines and a further band of gilt Laub-und Bandelwerk and a gilt line, the gilt Laub-und Bandelwerk bands on the cover and stand similar in spirit but not identical (wear to gilding on stand cartouche)
5in. (12.6cm.) high, the ecuelle and cover; 6¾in. (17.5cm.) diameter, the stand

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's Geneva, 12 November 1984, lot 169

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Lot Essay

The decoration on the present example, quite clearly by Höroldt himself, is derived from his Schulz Codex drawings. The scene on the stand of a mounted Chinaman charging full tilt at a group of ostrich is a combination of two drawings (Schulz folio II, i) and occurs on other pieces: a teapot at Lustheim and a waste bowl in Weimar (Das Meissner Musterbuch, figs. 95, 125). Neither of these interpretations has the delicate vitality of the treatment on the present example.

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