A large Meissen porcelain sugar box with chinoiseries
A large Meissen porcelain sugar box with chinoiseries
Round sugar bowl with original lid. Painted with five chinoiserie scenes surrounded by insects and fanciful birds. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark five pointed star, gold 37. (box and lid). The knob reattached. Minor chips to the basal ring of the box caused by the manufacturing process, the lid and base of the box with minor firing cracks. H with lid 9.4, D 10.9 cm.
Circa 1735 - 40, decor attributed to the workshop of Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt.
Provenance
North German private collection.
Literature
Cf. the decor in Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli, Munich 2000, no. 60.
For this form cf. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2000, no. 221.
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A large Meissen porcelain sugar box with chinoiseries
Round sugar bowl with original lid. Painted with five chinoiserie scenes surrounded by insects and fanciful birds. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark five pointed star, gold 37. (box and lid). The knob reattached. Minor chips to the basal ring of the box caused by the manufacturing process, the lid and base of the box with minor firing cracks. H with lid 9.4, D 10.9 cm.
Circa 1735 - 40, decor attributed to the workshop of Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt.
Provenance
North German private collection.
Literature
Cf. the decor in Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli, Munich 2000, no. 60.
For this form cf. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2000, no. 221.