Sophie von der Goltz
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Lot 47
A Meissen octagonal plate from the "Christie-Miller service", circa 1740
6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £15,000
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A Meissen octagonal plate from the "Christie-Miller service", circa 1740
Painted in the centre with a quayside scene depicting elegant figures in the foreground and palaces and ships in the distance, within a gilt trellis band reserved with four quatrelobe panels painted with purple landscape scenes, the rim with four larger polychrome scenes alternating with panels of gilt foliate scrollwork, gilt-edged rim, 22.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22
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Provenance:
The Property of The Trustees of the late S.R. Christie-Miller, sold by Sotheby & Co. London, 7 July 1970, lot 9 (part);
Acquired by the father of the present owner in the above sale
Sixty-one pieces of this service, said to have been purchased by Samuel Christie-Miller in 1840 from a member of the Orleans family, were sold by his descendants in 1970. The scene in the centre is closely related to engravings by Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm Baur, Underschidliche Prospecten, welche er in dennen Landen Italiae und dan auf seiner Heimreis Friaul, Karnten, Steir nach d. Leben gezeichnet, published in Augsburg in 1681.
Two other octagonal plates of the service are in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection in the Lustheim Palace (A. Schommers/ M. Grigat-Hunger, Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (2004), nos. 103-104); another plate is in the Carabelli Collection (U. Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli (2000), no. 118); an octagonal bowl and an oval dish, the latter a gift of Horst Hoffmeister, are in the Museum for Decorative Arts in Hamburg (J. Lessmann, Porzellan. Glanzstücke der Sammlung des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (2006), p. 38). A plate from the Hoffmeister Collection was sold in these Rooms, 24 November 2010, lot 52, and another plate was sold on 14 December 2016, lot 28.
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