One of the five cups (ZKW/1476/ab; ZKW/1477/ab; ZKW/1478/ab; ZKW/1479/ab; ZKW/1908/ab) purchased for the Royal Castle’s collections in 1985.
The cups, in the form of bowls from the Far East and saucers ornamented with so-called chinoiserie figural scenes of the type introduced by Johann Gregorius Höroldt, author of the best chinoiserie decoration on Meissen porcelain in the 1720s and 1730s. Höroldt worked with a team of painters although it is difficult to identify their individual style all the more so as they are rarely signed with letters or hidden marks, etc.
The number “81" painted in gold is the sign of the gilder. This number and the engraved mark “/" appears on vessels belonging to tea and coffee sets ornamented with chinoiserie scenes that were made in the second half of the 1720s.