Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 24

A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE PART TEA AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE

CIRCA 1738-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 37. TO ALL PIECES, SOME PIECES WITH DREHER'S MARKS, SOME WITH PRESSNUMMERN, THE MOUNTS LATER

Closed12 May 2010

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE PART TEA AND CHOCOLATE SERVICE
CIRCA 1738-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, GILDER'S 37. TO ALL PIECES, SOME PIECES WITH DREHER'S MARKS, SOME WITH PRESSNUMMERN, THE MOUNTS LATER
Painted in the manner of Christian Friedrich Herold with Chinoiserie figures at various pursuits on terraces supported by double red lines, with Gitterwerk borders, comprising;

A cylindrical chocolate-pot and cover, with a gilt spout and a terminal fitted with a turned wood handle, the cover with a hinged metal mount and gilt-metal cover
A bullet-shaped teapot and cover, with an animal head spout, a wishbone handle and a gilt-metal chain attachment
A shaped octafoil teapot stand
A gilt-metal mounted baluster hot-milk jug and flat cover, the spout and cover with a hinged mount (chip to spout beneath mount)
A circular sugar-bowl and domed cover, with a flowering branch finial (one petal lacking, very slight chipping to flowers)
A rectangular teacaddy and cover, with indianische Blumen to the shoulders
A slop-bowl
Four coffee-cups (one cracked)
Four teabowls
Ten saucers, with indianische Blumen to the undersides
(some wear to gilding)

Mr and Mrs Frank Collection, London
With Robert Williams, Sussex, 1994

Specialist note

Many of the scenes decorating this service have been derived from Höroldt's Schulz Codex. The scene of the figures playing backgammon on the chocolate-pot is taken from sheet 31 and a scene of a figure releasing insects from a box on a teabowl is taken from sheet 96, both of which are illustrated on pp. 20 and 21 with their corresponding sources. Other subjects not published here include the sedan chair scene on the hot-milk jug taken from sheet 77, a scene on the teapot with a child carrying a dignitary's train taken from sheet 55 and a scene on a coffee-cup with a woman carrying a child on her shoulders taken from sheet 51.