A porcelain coffee barrel on stand
Designed as a small barrel with a tap on the front. The upper face painted with merchant navy scenes in colours, sepia and puce camaieau in eight quatrefoil reserves. The stand on tripod scroll supports with depictions of hippocamps in puce camaieau an oval rocaille medallion at the front and a male caryatid in a blue drapery on the reverse. Blue crossed swords mark on the front edge of the barrel and the unglazed base of the stand. With later vermeil mountings, two legs restored. L barrel 15.5, H with stand 31 cm.
Circa 1740, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, circa 1738 - 40.
This barrel was produced after August 1738, as Kaendler mentions in his workshop records at this time producing a model for a barrel stand with three figures, whereas here the decoration here has been reduced to just one: "Eine starck Verzierte Unterlage Zum coffee Füßgen gefertiget, Selbige ruhet auf 3. Sauber ausgearbeiteten Schnirkeln da auf jeder eine Fügur siezet als 2 Weibers und ein Mannes Bild auf der Vorderseite ist ein zierliches Schild befindl."
Literature
For Kaendler's workshop record see Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706 - 1775, Leipzig 2002, p. 56.
A barrel with purple ground on a stand with three caryatids with similar merchant scenes formerly in the Marouf collection (in Pietsch, Passion for Meissen. Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, no. 95).
A further barrel auctioned in Lempertz auction 994 on 11th May 2012, lot 27.
A further example formerly belonging to the Klaus J. Jacobs collection, auctioned by Lempertz Cologne on 16th November 2017, Lot 13.