An early Meissen porcelain chinoiserie associated coffee and tea service
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An early Meissen porcelain chinoiserie associated coffee and tea service

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An early Meissen porcelain chinoiserie associated coffee and tea service
Painted in colours by J.G. Höroldt with Oriental figures at various fabulous pursuits amidst exotic surroundings and insects, comprising:

A tea service of four-compartmented form, produced in 1723 and painted in 1724, marked with tiny overglaze blue and red crossed swords, each object divided on the outside in four panels depicting various elaborate scenes, the borders with Goldspitzenbordüre motifs, comprising:
-a globular teapot with domed cover and ball finial, scroll handle and S-shaped spout, 12.7 cm. high;
-a baluster milk jug with domed cover en suite, scroll handle and heavily gilded pointed spout, 16 cm. high;
-an oval compressed bulbous sugar bowl and domed cover, 7 cm. high;
-a hexagonal inverted baluster teacaddy and cylindrical cover surmounted by a filigrain clover, 10 cm. high;
-four teabowls and saucers, the saucers painted with ogival cartouches depicting scenes en suite surrounded by gilt, purple and Eisenrot scrollwork and flanked by small Purpurmalerei chinoiserie panels, the outside of the saucers and the inside of the teabowls with Indianische Blumen;
-an extra saucer en suite;

A part service painted with continuous scenes, circa 1730, marked with underglaze blue crosseds swords and gilder's 46., comprising:
-a bullet-shaped teapot with slightly domed cover and acorn finial, wishbone handle and animal spout, 10.5 cm. high;
-a baluster coffee pot with scroll handle and heavily gilt pointed spout, 17.5 cm. high;

-A high teabowl and saucer, circa 1725, the bowl marked with tiny overglaze blue crossed swords, the bowl and saucer with gilder's z6., painted with ogival cartouches depicting scenes en suite surrounded by gilt and Eisenrot scrollwork and with a border of Goldspitzenbordüre motifs;
-a pair of saucers marked and decorated en suite to the preceding;
-A saucer, circa 1725, marked with gilder's 100., painted with an ogival cartouche depicting scenes en suite surrounded by gilt, purple and Eisenrot scrollwork and with a border of Goldspitzenbordüre motifs
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For a comparable example of the tea service of four-compartmented form see U. Pietsch, 'Meissener Porzellandekore im Stil der Höroldtmalerei und Figuren von Johann Joachim Kaendler', in: Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, München, 1997, p.26, ill.5.
This or a comparable service used to be present in the Grand Ducal Palace in Eisenach, Thuringia.