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A magnificent Meissen circular dish circa 1735 image 1
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Lot 55

A magnificent Meissen circular dish
circa 1735

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A magnificent Meissen circular dish

circa 1735
Superbly painted with a chinoiserie scene on a three-tier pedestal depicting figures flanked by flower vases on stands and small tables, the elaborate gilt pedestal with seeded and trellis panels filled with Böttger lustre enclosing three quatrelobe purple monochrome landscape panels and edged with foliate scrollwork, the rim with four Kauffahrtei scenes of merchants and their wares by a quayside in a gilt frame with tooled scrollwork, flanked by gilt trellis panels filled with Böttger lustre enclosing reserves with foliate scrollwork and a purple flower vase on a pedestal, 28.9cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed V inside footrim

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (Paul Pescheteau et Chantal Pescheteau-Badin), 5 February 1981;
Acquired in 1990

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 66

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

Six smaller dishes of this type (around 22cm diam.) belonging to Miss H. Agyropoulo, were sold in pairs by Christies London, 12 May 1927, lots 37-39. They were not illustrated in the catalogue, but are most likely to include at least some of the following examples: two smaller dishes of this type (22.4cm diam.) are in the Rijksmuseum (Den Blaauwen 2000, no. 89); another (22.7cm diam.) is in the Dr. Ernst Schneider collection, Schloss Lustheim (Schommers / Grigat-Hunger 2004, no. 32); one was in the von Dallwitz Collection, Berlin, by 1904 (destroyed in 1945, published in Brüning 1904, no. 166, pl. IX); others are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Cassidy-Geiger 1996b, fig. 13), the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsuhe, and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Another dish (22.9cm diam.), formerly in the collections of Dr. Albert Kocher, Bern, and Dr. Paul Schnyder von Wartensee, Luzern, was sold from a Swiss private collection by Christie's London, 8 July 2002, lot 29.

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