An exceptional Meissen porcelain tureen with chinoiseries and merchant navy scenes

An exceptional Meissen porcelain tureen with chinoiseries and merchant navy scenes

Oval vessel with scroll handles and original lid with a pine cone finial painted with chinoiserie figures on brackets. The tureen decorated with merchant scenes in gilt edged quartrefoil surrounds amid arabesques and trelliswork. Blue crossed swords mark. The handles restored. H with lid 10, W 18, D 10 cm.
Circa 1730 – 35, decor attributed to Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt and Christian Friedrich Herold.

Provenance

North German private collection.

Literature

Cf. the form in Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, no. 479.

An ecuelle from the same service formerly housed in the collection of Heno. H. Arnhold (cat. The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 - 50, Cassidy-Geiger, London 2008, no. 178, auctioned by Sotheby's New York on 24th October 2019, lot 382).