A Meissen porcelain cream pot and stand with midnight blue ground

A Meissen porcelain cream pot and stand with midnight blue ground

Rounded pot with moulded S-shaped handles on three paw feet, with original domed lid and saucer. All pieces decorated with indianische blumen, the lid with a mythical bird, in purple rimmed reserves. The central reserve of the saucer with a firing flaw. Blue crossed swords mark. The inner and outer rim of the pot chipped, the stand with four restored rim chips. H of pot with lid 11.5, D of stand 17.5 cm.
Circa 1730, decor attributed to Johann Ehrenfried Stadler.

Provenance

Acquired in 1997 from Kunsthandel Zemlin, Hannover.

Literature

Cf. the "soup pot" belonging to the Ernst Schneider foundation in Lustheim palace (in: Weber, vol. II, Munich 2013, no. 442).
A further cream pot and stand with underglaze blue ground and Stadler Chinoiseries in plain quatrefoil reserves housed in the British Museum, London (inv. no. 1923,0314.145.CR)