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Find your local specialistA very rare Meissen tray
Of lobed form moulded with a brown-edged scrollwork rim embellished in gilding, pierced at either side to form the handles, with additional trailing foliage and gadrooned panels, the centre painted in a variation of Famille verte style with a bird perched on a branch above stylised rockwork and flanked by
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Provenance:
Acquired in 1980
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 135
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Another example of this rare form, together with three matching condiment jugs and a sugar caster, is in the Danish Royal collection in Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen (inv. nos. 23-167 to 171, illustrated in Reinheckel 1989, ill. 82, where the author suggests J. Chr. Lücke as possibly the modeller). This type of tray was also used - albeit rarely - as an ecuelle stand, shown by the example made for the Prussian Queen Sophie Dorothea in 1730, now in the Franks Collection in the British Museum (published by Wittwer 2007, p. 96, fig. 5-9). A similar stand with a simpler moulded rim was also produced around the same time (see also Cassidy-Geiger 2008, no. 247c, for the example in the Arnhold Collection, New York; see also lot 69). The model, together with three jugs and a sugar caster, is noted in Kaendler's work records (Arbeitsberichte) for June 1733 (Pietsch 2002, pp. 19-20).
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