A Meissen Augustus Rex yellow-ground cup, circa 1727
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September 8, 06:42 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Augustus Rex yellow-ground cup, circa 1727
painted, perhaps by J. G. Höroldt with a figure in a garden within a gilt quatrefoil cartouche, the interior lip with a band of gilt scrollwork, against a canary-yellow ground, blue AR mark in concentric circles
Height: 6.5cm., 2⅝in.
Almost certainly the Royal Collections of Saxony;
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, Continental Ceramics, 30th September 1991, lot 264.
RELATED LITERATURE
Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 116-17, cat. no. 67.
This chocolate cup was probably part of a set of six, and can be identified in the listing of porcelain delivered to the Royal Court of Augustus the Strong between May 26 and July 28, 1727: "6. st. fein emaillirte Choccolade becher mit 1. Henckel mit gelber Glasur and 6. st. do. unterschaalen", [6 finely enamelled chocolate cups with 1 handle, with yellow glaze, and 6 matching saucers.], Claus Boltz, 'Eisbären und Polarfüchse ./. 6 Kästen Sächsisches Porzellan' in Keramos 148, 1995, p. 13.
The absence of an engraved inventory mark on the present cup could simply be an oversight or perhaps suggest this was a part of a larger service which was distributed throughout the Royal collection.
In 1770, a set of six chocolate cups and saucers are included in the inventory of the Japanese Palace: “Sechs Stück Chocolaten Tassen auswendig gelb mit vergoldten Zierrathen auch einem Schilde gemalht, mit einem Henckel, 2 3/4 Z. tief, 3 Z. in Diam No. 117”, [Six chocolate cups, yellow on the outside, painted with gilt decorations, also a reserve, with a handle... together with six matching saucers... No. 117], Boltz, 1996, p. 51.
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