A Meissen coffee pot and cover, circa 1725

of pear form, painted in the manner of Johann Gregorius Höroldt with two chinoiserie scenes, one showing four oriental figures in a garden, a woman bending down to pat the head of a begging dog at her side, the reverse with two men seated at a table in conversation, within a quatrefoil cartouche filled with Böttger lustre picked out in gilding, embellished with iron-red scroll work, the ground painted with indianische Blumen, the domed cover with a continuous chinoiserie landscape with figures, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 31. to both pieces,

Sotheby's London, 16th October 1979, lot 99;
Acquired at the sale by Röbbig, Munich 

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, pp. 38-39

Two small adjacent chips to the rim. Minor wear to gilding.
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A closely comparable coffee pot painted by Höroldt is in The Hans Syz Collection (published by Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, 1979, no. 35), a second comparable coffee pot with its original service is in the Bavarian National Museum, Inv. Nr. Ker 1678 (published by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, no. 168, pl. 50)