A Meissen porcelain Augustus Rex vase with lilac ground
Slender baluster-form vase with narrow, slightly tapering neck and central gilded pommel. Decorated with two finely painted Chinoiserie scenes of figures and birds in quatrefoil surrounds. Blue conjoined AR monogram. Restored cracks and firing cracks to the lower section, the rim ground down, wear to the gilding. H 30.6 cm.
Around 1726 - 30, decor attributed to Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt and Johann Ehrenfried Stadler.
Cassidy-Geiger assumes that the sea-green vase from the Arnhold Collection is one of the total of "121 pieces of fireplace attachments" that Boltz mentions: "(...) of various sizes so finely enamelled with golden ornaments and partly with colourful precious glazes, incl: flowers and Japanese figures" (p. 14). In the Japanese Palace, one room was reserved for "celadon" wares and a second for purple decorations. It is possible that this vase came from a firing that was not delivered to the king because of its defects. For more on the planned reconstruction of the palace's furnishings, see also Hertzig/Friedrichs/Karge, Das Japanische Palais in Dresden. Porzellanschloss-Staatsmonument-Museum. Konzeption und Baugeschichte. Petersberg 2019, p. 306 ff.
Provenance
Lempertz Cologne auction 1066 on 20 May 2016, lot 1035.
German private collection.
Literature
Cf. a vase with a similarly proportioned Hoeroldt chinoiserie in the collection of the Bavarian National Museum at Rückert, Munich 1966, no. 369.
S.a. Boltz, Polarbären und Polarfüchse./. 6 Kästen sächsisches Porzellan, in: Keramos 148 / 1995, p. 3 ff.
Cf. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2000, cat. no. 207 ff, parts of a coffee service, also with the combination of purple ground and Stadler chinoiseries.
A (sea-green) vase decorated according to the same scheme in the Henry Arnhold Collection (in Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 - 50, New York-London 2008, cat. No. 26).