A pair of Hochst pot à jus or Creme Topfchen, c.1755, red wheel marks, painted in purpurmalerei with landscape vignettes on rococo scroll supports, with scrolling branch handles, 5cm high (2) Provenance: Works of Art from the Schroder Collection...

A pair of Hochst pot à jus or Creme Topfchen, c.1755, red wheel marks, painted in purpurmalerei with landscape vignettes on rococo scroll supports, with scrolling branch handles, 5cm high (2) Provenance: Works of Art from the Schroder Collection. Note: Pots a jus were a French invention, and they were made at the St. Cloud factory from the 1730s onwards. They were used for serving a hot meat-juice consommé or bouillion. In 18th century Germany cups of this type were called Creme Topfchen or Cocots. For a discussion of these, and the slightly different ice-cups (or tasse à glaces), see Ulla Stafford, Custard Cups Pots à Jus, Over Wallop, n.d.
The pot a jus on the right of the catalogue image is missing the tip of the out-scrolled handle. This pot also has a miniscule repaired chip to the rim. The other pot has a restored break where the lower section of the handle meets the body. The tip of this handle has also been chipped. The foot rims of both with minute chipping, more evident on the pot on the left of the catalogue photograph.