A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1724, BLUE SCRIPT K.P.M. MARK, PAINTED BY J.G. HÖROLDT

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
Circa 1724, blue script K.P.M. mark, painted by J.G. Höroldt
Of squat oval form, the cover with twig finial, painted with large-scale Chinoiserie scenes, those on the box of a man playing a lute and a seated man taking tea, each reserved within gilt Laub-und-Bandelwerk cartouches enriched in Böttger luster and issuing iron-red and salmon foliate scrolls, sprays of indianische Blumen between each, the raised central section of the cover similarly painted with two scenes within a gold band, the border gilt with Laub-und-Bandelwerk
4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) wide

Provenance

Dr. William P. Harbeson, G.M. 10; Sotheby Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 10 December 1971, lot 85 (offered as painted by J.G. Höroldt, it sold for $1,750, the fourth highest selling price in this single-owner sale)

Lot Essay

The decoration on the present sugar box is related to 'Half-Figure' services in the Wark Collection at the Cummer Gallery of Art in Jacksonville, Florida,and in the Stout Collection at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee. Cf. Maria Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida, 1984, color fig. 16, cat. nos. 104, 117-120; also Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775, und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, Leipzig, 1996, nos. 61-79

The twig finial appears to be unrecorded in the Meissen literature.

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