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A Meissen plate of Earl of Jersey-type circa 1740 image 1

Lot 15

A Meissen plate of Earl of Jersey-type
circa 1740

The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part 1

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen plate of Earl of Jersey-type

circa 1740
Painted in the style of A.F. von Löwenfinck with an elaborate landscape scene depicting a bearded figure holding a scroll cylinder with an attendant holding a parasol and a child, the brown-edged rim painted with scattered flowers, 21.7cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 16 (some tiny areas of retouching)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Property of a Lady, sold Christie's London, 17 June 1968, lot 153;
The Property of a Gentleman, sold Sotheby's London, 9 October 1973, lot 95;
Acquired in 1984

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 47

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

These distinctive plates became known as the 'Earl of Jersey' service after a quantity of dishes, plates and tankards decorated in this style that was purchased in 1948 by the renowned collector, Ralph H. Wark, which was said to have been once owned by the Earl of Jersey (see Den Blaauwen 2000, p. 279). Twenty-one plates of this type remain at Osterley Park near London, which was given by the Earl of Jersey to the National Trust in 1949.

Wark argued that the service was painted by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, though the fact that some of the plates have impressed numerals and can therefore be dated after Löwenfinck's departure in 1734, proves that Löwenfinck was not the only artist to paint in this distinctive style and suggests that there may have been more than one service of this type. Two plates of this type are in the Carabelli Collection (Pietsch 2000, nos. 121-122). Many of the scenes are based upon prints by Petrus Schenk Junior and others published by J. Chr. Weigel; see Den Blaauwen 1966 and Den Blaauwen 2000, nos. 202-205, for similar plates in the Rijksmuseum.

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