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A rare pair of Meissen Hausmaler leaf-shaped dishes decorated in the workshop of Ignaz Preissler, circa 1720-30
5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £11,875 inc. premium
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A rare pair of Meissen Hausmaler leaf-shaped dishes decorated in the workshop of Ignaz Preissler, circa 1720-30
Each with a branch handle and moulded branches with flowers and leaves on the base, painted in iron-red embellished with gilding in the Preissler workshop, with landscape vignettes depicting chinoiserie figures to the interiors, below a border of foliate scrollwork, the exterior with a broad band of scrolling foliage incorporating chinoiserie figures, birds and flowers, the moulded bases embellished in iron-red, 10cm across (2)
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Two similar leaf-shaped dished decorated in the Preissler workshop in iron-red with similar scrollwork borders and mythological figures are in the Getty Museum and the Hans Syz Collection, respectively (M. Cassidy-Geiger, Two Pieces of Porcelain Decorated by Ignaz Preissler in the J. Paul Getty Museum, in The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 15 (1987), figs. 10a-e; H. Syz et al., Catalogue (1979), no. 355). See Helena Brožková (ed.), Daniel a Ignac Preisslerova (2009), for a comprehensive discussion of the Priessler workshop, and no. 85 for a similar leaf-shaped dish decorated in the Preissler workshop in iron-red and black, now in the collection of the Decorative Arts Museum, Prague.
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