This teabowl and saucer dates from the early period when Höroldt was exploring themes of court life and before chinoiseries became predominant.

Franks Collection, British Museum. I.N. 1893 Franks 61

A teabowl and saucer from the Franks collection in the British Museum shows an unfaithful wife and her husband receiving his cuckold’s horns. The teabowl is similarly painted with a lady playing a mandolin or a lute. Such a scene of a lady with a lute was also adapted into a chinoiserie and a drawing exists in the Schulz Codex.

Schulz Codex, plate 22 (detail)

Condition:
Teabowl broken in half and restuck

Provenance:
Sir Bruno Welby Bt.

References:

Pietsch 1996
Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt (1696-1775) und die Meissener Porzellanmalerei, (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 1996)

Schulz Codex 1978
Das Meissener Musterbuch für Höroldt-Chinoiserien (The Schulz Codex), (Edition Leipzig 1978)

Price: £4,400