A very rare Meissen beaker and saucer circa 1723
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A very rare Meissen beaker and saucer
circa 1723
The slender, flared beaker painted in iron-red camaieu, probably by J.G. Höroldt, with a large chinoisere figure on both sides, flanked by flowering plants and with insects and a bird overhead, the saucer similarly decorated with a circular scene depicting a figure holding a banner, concentric double-line borders, the beaker: 7.9cm high (2)
Sold for £30,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    The Property of a Lady, Christies London, 28 June 1976, lots 139 (beaker) and 141 (saucer);
    Acquired in 1993

    Literature:
    Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 13

    Exhibited:
    Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

    From a very rare, early service painted in iron-red, of which the teapot, slop bowl, three beakers and saucers and three teabowls and saucers were sold by Christie's London, 28 June 1976, lots 138-143, and two other beakers and saucers were sold by Sotheby's London, 7 November 1972, lots 145 and 146. An additional teabowl was sold at Christie's London, 5 July 2004, lot 13. Höroldt is recorded as having decorated a service in red as early as 1720 (Pietsch 1996, p. 38), though the present example can be dated to around 1723 because the teapot bears the K.P.M. mark. Several pieces from the service were exhibited in Dresden in 1996 (Pietsch 1996, nos. 7-12), when the decoration was attributed in part to Höroldt himself. A beaker and saucer and a teabowl and saucer are in the Carabelli Collection (Pietsch 2000, nos. 2-3) and the slop bowl is in the collection of Jeffrey Tate and Klaus Kuhlemann, London. Another beaker and saucer from the service is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (Cassidy-Geiger 2008, no. 74).

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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