A Meissen porcelain service with a lavender color and decor depicting trade and landscape.

9-piece set; 6 small cups with saucers, a teapot, a sugar container, and a bowl. Round shapes. Spherical jug with a relief handle and a spout in the shape of a leaf. Partially plastic pine-needle or floral handle. On the wall, a bright pale lilac background with outlines of territories depicting landscape scenes with trees. In the distance, natural landscapes, sometimes near a riverbank with sailboats and impressive architecture, standing merchants by barrels and balls, as well as couples and groups conversing or engaged in work. Reflected in the mirror are large harbor landscapes and images of rural fields, carefully painted with polychrome paints and elements of gold. Sword mark. Height of the jug: 9.5 cm. Between 1725 and 1735, most attempts were made to develop various background colors. Johann Gregorius Höroldt, at the insistence of Augustus the Strong, experimented around 1726/1727 with various recipes for background colors and thus laid the foundation for Meissen porcelain. Among the rarest background colors are pale lilac shades. The painting can be attributed to the factory artist and Höroldt’s associate Johann Georg Heintze (active circa 1720–1748), who specialized in landscapes and scenes with merchants. See Pietsch, Wark Collection, No. 225, p. 457 and following; Jedding, p. 137. Rare 9-piece porcelain set on a pale lilac background with scenes featuring merchants and figural landscapes. Sword marks. Meissen. Circa 1740.