A Meissen porcelain beaker and saucer with Hoeroldt Chinoiseries - image-1

Lot 1406 Dα

A Meissen porcelain beaker and saucer with Hoeroldt Chinoiseries

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.500 €
Result: 5.000 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain beaker and saucer with Hoeroldt Chinoiseries

With original saucer. Decorated with large, finely painted Chinoiserie figures in three quatrefoil surrounds. Unmarked, incised / (saucer). Remnants of red lacquer inventory numbers. A minor rim chip. Beaker H 7.8 cm, with silver collar around the foot.
Ca. 1720, the décor attributed to Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt, and workshop.

Literature

For more on the Chinoiserie motifs cf. Pietsch, Passion for Meissen Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, no. 37, for a sumptuous service featuring the same details. Ulrich Pietsch describes the décor as follows, "typischen, von Hoeroldt geprägten idyllischen Stil" verhaftet.