Tankard
Meissen Manufactory
(Germany)
Johann Gregorious Höroldt
(German, 1696–1775)
about 1725
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain decorated in underglaze blue, luster, colored enamels, and gilded decoration
DimensionsOverall: 19.4 x 15.1 x 10.2 cm (7 5/8 x 5 15/16 x 4 in.)
Other (at base): 10.9cm (4 5/16in.)
Other (Without cover): 16.4cm (6 7/16in.)
Other (at base): 10.9cm (4 5/16in.)
Other (Without cover): 16.4cm (6 7/16in.)
Credit LineGift of Rita and Frits Markus
Accession number1980.615
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
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During the 1720s Höroldt created the fashion at Meissen for imaginative and whimsical scenes of Chinese life. Höroldt provided the painters working under his direction with a pattern book containing more than a thousand sketches of Chinese-style motifs for them to copy or adapt.
Provenance1931, Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1987), Berlin; March 23–25, 1931, Goldschmidt-Rothschild sale, Ball-Graupe, Berlin, lot 598. By 1980, Rita and Frits Markus, Chatham, MA and New York; 1980, gift of Rita and Frits Markus to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 14, 1981)
