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

A 9-piece set: 6 small cups with saucers, a teapot, a sugar container, and a bowl. Round shapes. A spherical pot with a relief handle and a leaf-shaped spout. Partially plastic pine 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 chatting or engaged in work. The center features large harbor landscapes and images of rural fields, meticulously painted in polychrome colors with gold elements. Crossed swords mark. Height of the pot: 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 different recipes for background colors, thereby laying the foundation for Meissen porcelain. Among the rarest background colors are pale lilac tones. The painting can be attributed to a factory artist and Höroldt's associate Johann Georg Heintze (active circa 1720-1748), who specialized in landscapes and merchant scenes. See Pietsch, Werk Collection, No. 225, p. 457 ff.; Jedding, p. 137. A rare 9-piece porcelain set on a pale lilac background with merchant scenes and figural landscapes. Crossed swords marks. Meissen. Circa 1740.