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

9-piece tea set; 6 small cups with saucers, teapot, sugar container, and bowl. Round shapes. Spherical pot with a relief handle and a leaf-shaped spout. Partially plastic pine or floral handle. The wall features 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 chatting or engaged in work. The mirror displays large harbor landscapes and depictions of rural fields, meticulously painted in polychrome colors with gold elements. Sword mark. Height of the pot: 9.5 cm. Between 1725 and 1735, most attempts were made to develop various background colors. Johann Gregorious Höroldt, at the insistence of Augustus the Strong, experimented around 1726/1727 with different recipes for background colors, thereby laying 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. 457ff; Jedding, p. 137. A rare 9-piece porcelain set on a pale lilac background with scenes of merchants and figurative landscapes. Sword marks. Meissen. Circa 1740.