A Meissen part tea and coffee service, circa 1722-26

Finely painted with chinoiserie scenes within shaped gilt scroll- and strapwork cartouches filled with Böttger lustre and edged with iron-red foliate scrollwork, the rims with borders of gilt scroll- and strapwork enclosing flower heads, the insides of the teabowls with sprays of indianische Blumen within concentric iron-red circles, the coffee pot and the teapot with silver-gilt mounts marked for Elias Adam, Augsburg, and further painted with scattered insects and sprigs of indianische Blumen, the domed covers with continuous chinoiserie scenes, gilt finials, comprising:
a silver-gilt-mounted coffee pot and cover,
a silver-gilt-mounted teapot and cover,
five teabowls and six saucers,
an associated teabowl, circa 1730, similarly decorated, the coffee pot: 22.5cm high; the teapot: 11.5cm high, the teapot with crossed swords mark and K.P.M. in underglaze-blue and gilt numeral 83., the remaining pieces with gilt numeral 83., one teabowl with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and gilt numeral 1. (some minor rubbing to saucers) (14)

Literature:
U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 177

Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997