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Lot Essay
Top left and centre; the scene of the dignitary seated before a canopied throne on one of the baluster vases is taken from sheet 26 of Höroldt's Schulz-Codex.
Top right and above, the scene of the backgammon players on the central vase is taken from sheet 12 and adapted slightly.
The handling of the chinoiseries on the panels in the present lot, with extensive brocaded material noticeable on the clothing is reminiscent of the work of Philipp Ernst Schindler in the 1720s. As he was still active at Meissen in the 1740s and ranked as the second best painter after Wagner, it is very possible that the chinoiserie decoration on this garniture could be by him.
A garniture de cheminée of five vases of similar form from the Collection of Jonkheer van de Poll was sold in these Rooms on 5th October 1987, lot 224. Few complete garnitures have survived from the 18th century, and most are now in public collections. These vases were among the last sustained exercise in chinoiserie decoration in the style elaborated by Johann Gregorius Höroldt twenty years earlier. It is interesting that the scenes are still derived from Höroldt's sketches in the Schulz-Codex, but they are handled in a manner that fits the gilding and floral decoration of the 1740s. For three other vases with chinoiseries of this date in the Rijksmuseum, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 140-145, nos. 81 and 82. A tankard with a scene also derived from sheet 26 of the Schulz-Codex is illustrated by L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer, Meissner Porzellan (1927), fig. 51, no. 126, and Ulrich Pietsch, 'Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775' Zwinger Exhibition Catalogue (1996), p. 127, no. 105.
Top right and above, the scene of the backgammon players on the central vase is taken from sheet 12 and adapted slightly.
The handling of the chinoiseries on the panels in the present lot, with extensive brocaded material noticeable on the clothing is reminiscent of the work of Philipp Ernst Schindler in the 1720s. As he was still active at Meissen in the 1740s and ranked as the second best painter after Wagner, it is very possible that the chinoiserie decoration on this garniture could be by him.
A garniture de cheminée of five vases of similar form from the Collection of Jonkheer van de Poll was sold in these Rooms on 5th October 1987, lot 224. Few complete garnitures have survived from the 18th century, and most are now in public collections. These vases were among the last sustained exercise in chinoiserie decoration in the style elaborated by Johann Gregorius Höroldt twenty years earlier. It is interesting that the scenes are still derived from Höroldt's sketches in the Schulz-Codex, but they are handled in a manner that fits the gilding and floral decoration of the 1740s. For three other vases with chinoiseries of this date in the Rijksmuseum, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), pp. 140-145, nos. 81 and 82. A tankard with a scene also derived from sheet 26 of the Schulz-Codex is illustrated by L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Sammlung Margarete und Franz Oppenheimer, Meissner Porzellan (1927), fig. 51, no. 126, and Ulrich Pietsch, 'Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775' Zwinger Exhibition Catalogue (1996), p. 127, no. 105.