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Lot 730 N α

A Meissen porcelain coffee pot with large Chinoiserie scenes

Auction 1107 - overview Cologne
15.05.2018, 17:00 - Selected Works
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €
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A Meissen porcelain coffee pot with large Chinoiserie scenes

Pear form jug with angular lip and S-form handle, the original lid with a disc shaped finial. Gilt mark 10. The tip of the finial chipped, a small chip to the rim and the lower edge of the lid. H 20 cm.
The porcelain fired before 1723, decorated in the workshop of Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt, probably around 1725 - 30.

Provenance

Continental family ownership.

Literature

A very similar pitcher decorated with a Chinoiserie scene running all around the body kept in the Hetjens-Museums Düsseldorf (in: Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696 - 1775, Leipzig 1996, no. 130.