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A Meissen octagonal plate from the 'Christie-Miller' service circa 1740
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Find your local specialistA Meissen octagonal plate from the 'Christie-Miller' service
Superbly painted with a scene of a large tree standing by a small meandering road and leading from the outskirts of a village to a large palazzo, a peasant leading his mule down the path, enclosed by a gilt trellis band reserved with four quatrelobe landscape vignettes in purple monochrome, the rim with four similar polychrome scenes enclosed by a band of brown-edged gilt foliate scrollwork, 22.6cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22
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Provenance:
The late S.R. Christie-Miller, sold Sotheby's London, 7 July 1970, lot 28 (part);
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 25 March 1985, lot 146;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 99
Exhibition:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
In addition to the examples noted in the literature (above), another plate is in the Carabelli Collection (Pietsch 2000, no. 118). A slightly larger plate (25cm across) is in a Bad Pyrmont private collection (Lemcke 2000, p.43). It is interesting to note that one of the cartouches showing a harbour scene with merchants and ships and a row of palazzi is a variation on the scene as depicted on the cavetto of a plate of the same series in the Hoffmeister Collection (Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 100). The source for this and other scenes on pieces from this service can be found in engravings by Melchior Küssel, published in Augsburg in 1681 and 1682. Another plate of the same size was sold at Christie's London, 11 December 2007, lot 111 and is now in the David Roche Collection (Menz / Reason 2008 p.38).
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