Lot Essay
The teapot from this service (in the The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory number 1991.1a-b) bears a gilder's 60. mark and a blue K.P.M. mark.
CIRCA 1723-24, GILDER'S 60.
Details
A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE SLOP-BOWL
CIRCA 1723-24, GILDER'S 60.
Painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with Orientals, taking tea, picking flowers and smoking, on terraces within shaped gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and gilt and iron-red scrolls divided by indianische Blumen, the interior with an Oriental smoking a long pipe within a similar cartouche below a band of Gitterwerk (slight wear to gilt rim)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1723-24, GILDER'S 60.
Painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with Orientals, taking tea, picking flowers and smoking, on terraces within shaped gilt line cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and gilt and iron-red scrolls divided by indianische Blumen, the interior with an Oriental smoking a long pipe within a similar cartouche below a band of Gitterwerk (slight wear to gilt rim)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Raymond Collection, Belchamp Hall, Suffolk, acquired in 1725, and thence by descent
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich
With Armin B. Allen, London, 1992
With Angela Gräfin von Wallwitz, Munich
With Armin B. Allen, London, 1992
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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Dominic Simpson