An early Meissen tea service with merchant's tea and. Landscape decoration from the property of the Margraves of Baden-Durlach 8-piece set; tea and hot water jug, cream jug, sugar and tea caddy, 3 small bowls with saucers. Spherical and pear-shaped with J and S handles. Lid with ball, bud and pine purchase. Both sides of the wall and in the mirror with matching gold reserves of foliage and scrollwork, surrounded by purple-coloured rocailles with lattice fields. Inside, various harbour and landscape scenes. In wide river landscapes, tall ships lying on the shore and merchants in conversation between goods and tied bales, or tree-covered landscapes with an imposing architectural backdrop and partly bridge construction as well as figural staffage. Pear jug, tea and sugar bowl also with kakiemon floral decoration in iron red, enamel blue, moss green and yellow. The inside of the bowl with purple camaieu scenes. Fine polychrome painting with gold decoration and surrounding gold lace border. Turner marks for Johann Gottlieb Kühnel Sen. and Chr. Meynert, among others; some gold no. 34 (N). Hot water jug and cream jug with gilt silver mount. Partial Sotheby's auction label. Centreboard mark. Partial whip mark. Jug h. 10 cm - 22 cm. Pitcher h. 4.5 cm. Provenance: Margravine Magdalene Wilhelmine of Baden-Durlach, Margravine Anna Charlotte Amalie of Baden-Durlach, Margrave Carl Friedrich of Baden-Durlach, Margravine Caroline Luise of Baden-Durlach, Hereditary Prince Carl Ludwig of Baden-Durlach; Grand Ducal Residence Palace in Karlsruhe (inv. no. 1799-1815), New Palace in Baden-Baden (inv. no. 1916-32), exhibition "Carl Friedrich and his time", New Palace, Baden-Baden 1981, no. 5.4.5; Sotheby's auction 5-21 October 1995, Baden-Baden, lot 1295, Stuttgart private collection. An early 18th C. 8-piece partly gilt-silver mounted porcelain tea set finely painted with Kauffahrtei decor and landscapes from the former property of the margraves of Baden-Durlach, sold at the Sothebys auction, 5th - 21st of October 1995, Baden-Baden, cat. no. 1295. Partly former's mark. Sotheby's auction label. Crossed swords and partly whip mark. Meissen. Circa 1735.