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A rare Höchst porcelain hot chocolate pot with a motif after Nicolaes Berchem

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
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A rare Höchst porcelain hot chocolate pot with a motif after Nicolaes Berchem

Cylindrical vessel with pronounced shoulders, original lid and wooden handle. Purple wheel mark, incised mark with three dots and cursive L (to vessel and lid). Lid without metal mountings. Chip to the tip of the spout, a reattached breakage to the porcelain part of the handle. H 13.8 cm.
Electoral Mainz Manufactory Höchst, around 1755.

The depiction on the front of the chocolate pot is a mirrored version of a motif from an etching by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620 - 1683).

Provenance

Collection of Erna-Maria Weingärtner-Huber.

Literature

Cf. Röder/Oppenheim, Das Höchster Porzellan auf der Jahrtausend-Ausstellung in Mainz 1925, Mainz 1930, cat. no. 597, for a service with purple birds and rocailles.
A very similar model in Stahl/Ohlig, Höchster Porzellan 1746 – 1796, Frankfurt 1994, cat. 5.1.2.