CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S MARK TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE 'HALF-FIGURE' SERVICE TEABOWL
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S MARK TO FOOTRIM
Painted by J.G. Höroldt, each side with half-length figures of Orientals, one holding a staff with a boy beside him, the other holding a contraption, within shaped quatrefoil gilt cartouches enclosing lustre panels and edged with puce scrolls enriched with yellow and red straps, the interior with a flowerhead and trellis-pattern medallion beneath a Gitterwerk border (interior border with some minute wear)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 4th June 1996, lot 67

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Other pieces from this service are illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 und die Meissener Porzellan-Malerei Zwinger Porzellansammlung, Dresden, Exhibition Catalogue (Leipzig, 1996), pp. 84-101, nos. 61-79. A pair of beakers and saucers and a pair of teabowls and saucers in the Wark Collection are published by Mary Campbell Gristina et al., The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), nos. 117-120. Other pieces from this 'half figure' service were sold in these Rooms on 5th October 1981 lots 147-156. Another tea service with half figures is at Schloss Favorite in Rastatt.

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