CIRCA 1725-28, OVERGLAZE PUCE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN BALUSTER CHINOISERIE COFFEE-POT AND DOMED COVER
CIRCA 1725-28, OVERGLAZE PUCE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
With a richly-gilt spout and S-scroll handle, probably painted by P.E. Schindler with a continuous scene of chinoiserie figures on a terrace with shrubs and trees, including a seated man before cooking vessels on a table flanked by a man holding a flag and a woman and child before a column pedestal surmounted with a vase of red coral, the sides with a man seated holding a fan and other figures gardening, with scattered insects and exotic birds in flight, below a gilt border of pendant scrolls and flowerheads, the handle with two sprays of iron-red indianische Blumen, the cover similarly decorated with a continuous scene of chinoisere figures taking tea, gardening and at various pursuits, within iron-red double concentric lines and gilt bands (restored rim chip to cover, very minor chipping to finial, minute scratching to enamels and gilding)
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav von Klemperer, Dresden 1928, pl. 26, no. 811, for a teapot and cover with the same gilt border as the present lot. Although the Klemperer teapot could perhaps be from the same service, the figures appear to be by a different hand.

For other services with closely related gilt borders see Richard Seyffarth, Johann Gregorius Höroldt, Dresden, 1981, col. pls. 2-12.

The central figure seated before the column appears to be taken from sheet 53 of the Schulz Codex.

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