A Meissen porcelain cream pot with late Hoeroldt Chinoiseries

A Meissen porcelain cream pot with late Hoeroldt Chinoiseries

Round cream pot on three gilt paw feet, the original domed lid with a pinecone finial. Decorated throughout with a finely painted Chinoiserie scene above a double line in iron red. With several insects painted over minor flaws in the glaze. Blue crossed swords mark, the base concentrically ground down. Minor wear and losses to the gilding and green enamel. H with lid 15 cm.
Circa 1739.

Provenance

Acquired in 1986 from Röbbig, Munich.

Literature

Illus. in cat.: Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, p. 45.
The "late" Chinoiserie decor can be seen on a similarly decorated teapot formerly housed in the collection of Said and Roswitha Marouf, attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold by Ulrich Pietsch (Pietsch, Stuttgart 2010, no. 48).