A pair of Olio pots with lids and the corresponding ‘Salami’ stands

Tureens: 8.2 cm high (without lid), 12.8 and 13.5 cm (with) / Ø 15.5 and 15.8 cm; without swords marks. Meissen porcelain c. 1723, chinoiserie painting and gold decoration 1726
Salami stands: Ø 22 cm, swords marks with knobs. Porcelain, chinoiserie painting and gold decoration from 1726

Provenance: The Jules and Anna Porgès Collection

Our Olio pots with stands mark the beginning of a new period in the work of Johann Gregorius Höroldt: the mastery of gold painting, which he achieved after long attempts in the spring of 1726 and which led to Höroldt and his workshop replacing Funcke's "simple" gold work. The gold decoration - fuelled by Höroldt's wealth of imagination - reached the level of the French ornamentalists, as he had predicted (see our attachment "1726 — das Jahr der Wende in der Meissner Goldmalerei" below).