1722-1723, PROBABLY PAINTED BY J. G. HÖROLDT

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A BÖTTGER CHINOISERIE WASTE-BOWL
1722-1723, PROBABLY PAINTED BY J. G. HÖROLDT
Painted in colors with a single Chinoiserie figure in a landscape, one side with a sage seated beside a monumental vase before a willow tree, a baying fox at the right, the other with a gentleman seated at a table before a wooden wall with a window and smoking a pipe, vases of various forms lined up along the top of the wall, a begging dog at the right, each reserved within a Böttger-lustre cartouche enriched in gilt and issuing iron-red and gilt foliate scrolls, sprays of delicate indianische Blumen separating each panel, the interior painted in iron-red with a pavilion on a peninsula and with similar flowers issuing from rockwork, reserved within an identical cartouche, the everted rim gilt
7½ in. (19 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Grand Ducal Residence, Karlsruhe (Koelitz Inv. Nr. 1849).
New Palace, Baden-Baden (Richter Inv. No. 1955a).
The Collection of the Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden; Sotheby's in the premises, vol. III: Ceramics and Glass, 8 October 1995, lot 1278.

Lot Essay

The attribution to Höroldt's hand is based on similar elements found in Ulrich Pietsch's Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775, Dresden, 1996. Very similar iron-red and gilt scroll surrounds with Böttger- lustre panels can be found throughout (see p. 69, nos. 46; p. 77, no. 53), as well as colorful cloudy skies (p. 104, no. 82; p. 135, no. 110) and grassy foregrounds working their way into brown middle-grounds (p. 105, no. 82; p. 99, no. 99 and 100). The treatment of the vase in pl. no. 70 (p. 94) is also quite similar to the monumental vase in the present example.

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