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Lot 66

A Meissen soup plate from the 'Green Watteau' service for the Saxon court
circa 1750

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

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A Meissen soup plate from the 'Green Watteau' service for the Saxon court

circa 1750
Moulded with the 'Gotzkowsky-Relief pattern, modelled by J.F. Eberlein, painted in the centre in copper-green, black and flesh tones with a landscape vignette depicting an elegant couple, the gilt-edged rim painted with four flower sprigs, 23.8cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1974

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 199

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

According to the inventories of the Dresden Hofsilberkammer, the service was delivered from 1749. Thirty soup plates delivered by Rost and Helbig were entered in the inventory on 31 December 1749, a soup plate was broken at the royal table on 8 December 1750, another was delivered in 1755, and seventy-nine more were delivered between 1774-88 [Inventarium über das bey der Königl. Pohln. und Churfl. Sächssl. Silber-Cammer befindl. Gold, Silber, Porcellain, Zien, Blech (...) Errichtet im Jahre 1741, vol. III (SächsHStA, OHMA, T., Nr. 31)].

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