A Meissen porcelain tea bowl with Chinoiserie decor
Depicting a female (?) figure seated before a pavillion with Oriental flowers and rocks in a quatrefoil gold lace cartouche hung with iron red and brown feathers. Dreher's mark /. A minor chip to the basal ring. H 4.5, D 7.8 cm.
Pre-1721, decor attributed to Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt, around 1722 - 24.
Ulrich Pietsch first attributed the half-figure chinoiserie type to Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt in 1996. Friedel Kirsch managed to identify four services with this decor. They differ clearly in the shape of their cartouches, the colour of the attached feather tassels and the gold lace borders around the edges. What all pieces have in common are the finely painted reserves with exotically dressed half-figures sitting on terraces under a blue or purple clouded sky.
The bowl shown here almost certainly matches a jug in Schleissheim Castle, from the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider. The jug shows two full-figure Chinoiseries in identical cartouches. It is possible that in the course of the production and decor of the service to which the jug belonged, the idea arose to only paint half-figures on the bowls due to the smaller surface area. This would imply the existence of a fifth service that may even be dated a little earlier.
Literature
Cf. Rückert, 'Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810', Munich 1966, cat. no. 146, the "Schnabelkanne", to which this little pot probably belongs.
Cf. Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt 1696 - 1775 und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei. Zur Dreihundertsten Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages, Dresden-Leipzig 1996, cat. no. 58 ff.
S.a. cat. Langeloh Porcelain. 100 Jahre Porzellane und Fayencen des 18. Jahrhunderts 1919 - 2019, Weinheim 2019, p. 169 ff.