Beschreibung:

A MEISSEN COMPOSITE TRAVELLING (K.P.M.) CHINOISERIE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE with contemporary Augsburg silver-gilt mounts, painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with chinoiserie figures at various pursuits within quatrefoil cartouches with Böttger lustre panels and gilt and iron-red Laub-und-Bandelwerk , the ground with scattered indianische Blumen and insects and the borders with interlocking gilt scrolls and flowerheads within gilt line rims, comprising: (a) A pear-shaped coffee-pot and stepped domed cover with silver-gilt mounts, tapering spout and scroll handle with a figure watering flowers and a negro bringing fruit to a man seated beside a rabbit, the cover with gilt knob finial (slight hair crack beside spout) (b) A K.P.M. squat baluster teapot and cover with silver-gilt mounts, mask head spout, with a man bowing to two dignatories and figures seated beside a table, vases and a peacock displaying to one side (finial broken and a restored replacement, slight chip to footrim), blue K.P.M. mark (c) A K.P.M. octagonal sugar-box and cover with silver-gilt mounts, the box with two cats and two partridges with their chicks, the cover with a figure before a steaming pot and another before a vase (minute chip to footrim), blue K.P.M. mark (d) A hexagonal ribbed tea-caddy and cover, three panels with full length dignatories and three with pagodas on rocky outcrops (minute chip to footrim and rim of cover) (e) A bowl, one side with two figures before a steaming brazier, the other with a seated dignatory and a man holding a fan and a parrot on a hoop, the interior painted in iron-red with an Oriental beside a flowering plant Four teabowls with (f) a seated man smoking, (g) another beside a knife-grinder, (h) another gardening and (i) a negress before a table (the last with a minute rim chip), Dreher's to footrims Six saucers with (j) a huntsman riding a plumed horse followed by a dog, (k) a man leading a donkey carrying a monkey and birds, (l) another carrying three fish and a parrot on a pole, (m) another taking tea at discussion with a standing man, (n) a lady carrying chickens and a cockerel following her, and (o) a lady and child before a fence (the third with a small restored rim chip) (some slight rubbing to gilding), the mounts with EA marks for Elias Adam , Augsburg and stamped pineapple town marks for 1722-26, in a rectangular travelling case with chamfered corners, covered with leather, lined with green velvet edged with gilt braid, with gilt metal handles, hinges and fastenings (worm holes to box, some leather lacking, some relining to interior of cover and part of front fastening lacking), 1722-26 Two teabowls en suite with European half-figures as huntsmen in landscapes within oval cartouches (one cracked and with associated chip, the other with gilding rubbed), Dreher's /, circa 1723 the case 52.5cm. wide