CIRCA 1725, GILDER'S 23. TO BOTH

Details

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN COFFEE-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, GILDER'S 23. TO BOTH
Finely painted to both sides in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with Chinoiserie figures taking tea, within gilt cartouches enclosing Böttger lustre panels and further indiansche Blumen, below a gilt Laub-und Bandelwerk rim
8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

La Baronne Alix de Rothschild; Christie's, London, 28 June 1976, lot 152.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 November 1977, lot 185.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 October 1996, lot 462.
Property from the Collection of Mary Porter Walsh; Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 37.

Lot Essay

Although the red trellis border on the cover is absent on the coffee-pot, the flowers and foliage on both pieces are by the same hand and the palette is the same. Both pieces bear gilder's 23 marks and, in addition, the preceding lot in the 1976 Rothschild sale was the hot-milk jug from the same service as the present coffee-pot, which also had the same trellis border on the cover and similarly bore gilder's 23 marks to both the pot and the cover. Therefore the present coffee-pot and other pieces from this service almost certainly must have been originally conceived with variations in design between the covers and pots.

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