Lot Essay
A beaker and saucer from this rare service is in the Arnhold Collection, New York, and is illustrated by M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (London, 2008), p. 298, no. 74. See Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, p. 40, no. 13 for a beaker and saucer and an extensive discussion of this service.
Pieces of this service were sold in these Rooms on 28th June 1976, lots 138-43 and by Sotheby's, London, on 7th Nov 1972, lot 145. Also see Ulrich Pietsch, U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain Exhibition Catalogue (Lübeck, 1993), pp. 48-49, no. 33 for a beaker and saucer from the service, and where he discusses that Höroldt fired the 'first red-painted service on 19th July 1720, and then brought it to Dresden'.
Pieces of this service were sold in these Rooms on 28th June 1976, lots 138-43 and by Sotheby's, London, on 7th Nov 1972, lot 145. Also see Ulrich Pietsch, U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain Exhibition Catalogue (Lübeck, 1993), pp. 48-49, no. 33 for a beaker and saucer from the service, and where he discusses that Höroldt fired the 'first red-painted service on 19th July 1720, and then brought it to Dresden'.