A pair of rare cups and saucers with late Hoeroldt Chinoiseries

A pair of rare cups and saucers with late Hoeroldt Chinoiseries

The cups decorated throughout with finely painted Chinoiserie scenes above a double line in iron red. The saucer with Chinoiseries within two concentric iron red rings beneath insects and birds. The rim and underside with scattered flowers. Blue crossed swords mark, star dreher's mark of Paul Wildenstein (saucer), gilt mark 62. Some wear to the gilding. H cups 6.3, D saucer 12.1 cm.
Circa 1739.

Provenance

Acquired from Gerhard Röbbig, Munich, 1985.

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).