Painted in the manner of B.G. Häuer with miners and foremen in landscape vignettes surrounded by scattered deutsche Blumen, within gilt line rims, the wares with ozier-moulded borders, the tray with shell-moulded handles, comprising: a two-handled shaped oval tray, a hot-chocolate-pot and cover, a small teapot (cover lacking), a milk-jug, a sugar-bowl and cover, a teaspoon, two teacups and two saucers and two coffee-cups and two saucers
The tray - 17¹⁄₄ in. (43.5 cm.) wide

From a Swiss private collection and the estate of Dr. Karl Lanz, Manheim, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 8 May 1930, lot 69 (sold for 1200 marks).

Please note that the teapot cover shown in the photograph is lacking.

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The mining industry was vital to Saxony's economy and highly valued under Augustus the Strong. Wares decorated with these subjects serve to demonstrate this significance and some pieces show gilt mounds of coal, symbolising the richness and importance of the produce. The scenes are full of detail and the mining officials are singled out with gilt AR monograms to their hats and by their gold buttons. The everyday miner instead has a crossed hammer and chisel to his hat.

For a part service with similar decoration see Rainer Slotta et al., Ein fein bergmannig Porcelan, Abbilder vom Bergbau in 'weißem Gold', Essen, 1999, p. 67.
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A two-handled shaped oval tray (blue crossed swords and dot mark, incised H) 17¹⁄₄ in. (43.5 cm.) wide - very slight chipping to footrim.
A hot-chocolate-pot and cover (blue crossed swords and dot mark) 5⁷⁄₈ in. (14.9 cm.) high - two minute chips to the cover flange and a restored chip to flange. Finial petals broken and restored with some minute chipping.
A small teapot (blue crossed swords and dot mark) 3¹⁄₂ in. (9 cm.) high - cover lacking, small stained hairline cracks to underside of cover. Break and loss to finial stem, chipping to finial petals. The pot with spout and handle broken and restored with spray and some repainting and regilding.
A milk-jug (blue crossed swords mark) 4¹⁄₈ in. (10.4 cm.) high - minute chipping to feet and small restored and regilt chip to spout.
A sugar-bowl and cover (blue crossed swords mark) 3⁵⁄₈ in. (9.2 cm.) high - Cover with finial broken and restored with overpainting. Some kiln spitting. Gilding to rim completely worn.
A small teaspoon - wear and flaking to gilding to bowl.
Two teacups and two saucers (blue crossed swords and dot marks, incised 3s to cups and 5 to saucer) -- one teacup with two minute footrim chips, the other with minute footrim chipping. Both saucers with flaking to gilt rim, one with short glazed hairline crack from rim, the other with slight footrim chipping and kiln spitting.
Two coffee-cups and two saucers (blue crossed swords marks, pressnummer 52 to one saucer) - One cup with two restored rim chips and flaking to gilt rims. One saucer with slight footrim chipping.

Overall, some flaking and wear to gilding, particularly at rims. Slight surface scratching and wear to enamels. Some kiln spitting. Generally in good decorative order and of very smart appearance.

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