A Meissen porcelain service in lavender color with decoration depicting trade and landscape.

9-piece set; 6 small cups with saucers, a teapot, a sugar container, and a bowl. Round shapes. A spherical jug with a relief handle and a leaf-shaped spout. Partially plastic pine needles or a 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. On the mirror, large harbor landscapes and images of rural fields are reflected, meticulously painted in polychrome colors 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 thereby laid the foundation for Meissen porcelain. Among the rarest background colors are pale lilac shades. The drawing can be attributed to the factory painter and Höroldt's associate Johann Georg Heintze (active around 1720–1748), who specialized in landscapes and scenes with merchants. See Pietsch, Wark Collection, No. 225, p. 457 ff.; Jedding, p. 137. A rare 9-piece porcelain set on a pale lilac background with merchant scenes and figurative landscapes. Sword marks. Meissen. Circa 1740.