24 Nov 2010
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part Three
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The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part Three
Back to auction 17978
A rare Meissen dish
circa 1735
Painted with a winged, tiger-like dragon curled around bamboo and flowering peonies, facing a stork and butterfly with scattered leaves and flower sprigs around the wavy rim, 38.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised 4, impressed (unidentified) Dreher's mark ++ (Rückert 1996, pl. 9, no. 6)
Painted with a winged, tiger-like dragon curled around bamboo and flowering peonies, facing a stork and butterfly with scattered leaves and flower sprigs around the wavy rim, 38.2cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised 4, impressed (unidentified) Dreher's mark ++ (Rückert 1996, pl. 9, no. 6)
Sold for
£10,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
Generalkonsul Georg Baschwitz Collection, Berlin, sold A. Wertheim, Berlin, 25-26 March 1930, lot 542;
Acquired in 1987
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 111
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2000
A circular dish with the same decoration is in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (den Blaauwen 2000, no. 166).
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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