A Meissen porcelain chocolate pot with yellow ground and chinoiseries

A Meissen porcelain chocolate pot with yellow ground and chinoiseries

Of cylindrical form with rounded shoulders and a shallow domed lid with a pinecone finial. The body and lid decorated with finely painted Chinoiserie figures in bizarre landscapes. The shoulders, spout and handle with indianische blumen. Blue crossed swords mark with curved guards on the unglazed underside. The spout reattached, some firing faults, minor wear. H 17.3 cm.
Circa 1730/35, decor attributed to Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck.

Provenance

Acquired in 1989 from Kunsthandel Zemlin, Hannover.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 59.
Cf. the figures and landscape on the vase with the inventory no. BK-17350 and a jug with the number BK-17349 in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (in: bei den Blaauwen, Amsterdam 2000, nos. 194 and 199).
Cf. also a chocolate pot with purple ground in the Wark Collection (in: Cassidy-Geiger, Fragile Diplomacy. Meissen Porcelain for the European Courts, New York 2007, no. 215).