CIRCA 1722-1723

This teapot appears to be from the same service as the teabowl and saucer sold by Christie’s, London, 11 December 2007, lot 88, which was illustrated by S. Ducret in Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, Braunschweig, 1972, vol. II, pl. 118, where the author attributed the decoration to Elisabeth Wald.  However, the decoration would appear to be very early factory decoration, and although the figures are European peasant scenes, it relates to the service of circa 1722-23 which is decorated in iron-red with Asian figures on mounds (similarly supported by double-line borders) which is thought to have been decorated by J.G. Höroldt (for pieces of this service, and a discussion of other pieces, see U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, Carabelli Collection, Munich, 2000, pp. 34-35 and p. 38).