porcelain, 12 items: 1 coffee jug with cover height 20 cm, 1 milk jug with cover height 17 cm, 1 sugar urn with cover height 20 cm, 1 bowl height 8.7 cm, Ø 20 cm, 4 cups and 4 saucers height 6 cm, Ø 13.3 cm, body in a classicising style, each separate item ornamented with individual floral décor, cups, gilding to inside of covers, sugar urn and bowl, to exterior gilt rims, foliate border painted en grisaille with beads on a light blue band with white rims, burnished gilt ground with burnished gilt-painted border of small leaves on a matt gilt band, colourfully-painted strewn flowers and small and large floral bouquets, angular gilt handle with leaf and console terminals, sugar urn with pierced gilt cover and finial, carried by 3 matt gilt sphinxes, circular stepped base, gilt ground to upper bodies of the saucers, repairs to 2 cup rims and cover of sugar urn, repair to rim of aperture, Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, year numbers 1799-1802, 1811, 1817, various turner nos, painter no. 6 Anton Friedl 1795-1848, won awards for flower painting (Ru)

Lit.: W. Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexikon, 1840-1914, vol. I, p. 285, Anton Friedl d. 1854 in Vienna, flower and design painter, painter no. 6, worked at the Viennese Porcelain Manufactory from 1795 until c. 1850;
J. Folnesics, Dr. E. Braun, Geschichte der K. K. Wiener Porzellan-Manufaktur, Vienna 1907, p. 120; “Anton Friedl was ... awarded for diligence and skill in flower and design painting ... from 1795 onwards, with several prizes,” p. 215; documented in index of colour and gilt design painters;