An early Meissen porcelain tea pot and cover by Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt
Rounded pear-form vessel with spout and handle issuing from mascarons. With original lid. Finely decorated with two Chinoiserie scenes of a tea ceremony and, presumably, a sacrifice scene flanked by 'indianische blumen' and bushes. Blue K.P.M. Mark. A round crack covered by a branch (painted later). H with lid 15.6 cm.
1723.
Richard Seyffarth published the first monograph on Johann Gregorius Höroldt in the VEB Leipzig in 1981. Ulrich Pietsch created a second catalogue following his appointment as director of the porcelain collection and the political shift in the year 1996. These new circumstances allowed his publication to include pieces which were not housed in the museums of the former GDR, either from west German museums or even from private collections. Pietsch also placed a new research focus on identifying the hands of various porcelain painters in order to differentiate Hoeroldt's works from those of his colleagues. The manufactory already employed several very good painters before 1725, including Johann Gottlob Erbsmehl, Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer, Johann George Heintze, Johann Christoph Horn and Johann Ehrenfried Stadler. Philipp Ernst Schindler and Christian Friedrich Herold came to the manufactory in 1725.
The chinoiseries are considered to be the invention of Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt to this day. These types of large figures painted in iron red camaieu that cast shadows and have particularly detailed clothing and theatrical facial features and gestures are among the first that Hoeroldt painted on porcelain and started the earliest trend in the decoration of Meissen porcelain in the manufactory.
Literature
Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese. Meißener Porzellan aus der Sammlung Tono Dreßen, Munich 2018, S. 33, no. 11.
Illustrated in Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696 - 1775, Dresden-Leipzig 1996, no. 7, p. 36 f.
Cf. Also a similarly painted beaker and teabowl and saucer in the Hoffmeister collection (vol. I, Hamburg 1999, no. 12 and 13)., the beaker later in the collection of Said and Roswitha Marouf (in Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, Stuttgart 2010, no. 5).
Cf. Also a similarly painted beaker and teabowl and saucer in the Carabelli collection (in Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan, Munich 2000, no. 2-3)."