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Lot 169

A pair of framed miniatures by Josef Zächenberger, circa 1760

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of framed miniatures by Josef Zächenberger, circa 1760

Vellum laid on wood panel, the first depicting a lady playing at a keyboard attended by a gentleman, signed on the edge of the spinet 'Zæchenberger. Pinx', the second with a dancing couple and musicians in a garden setting, signed along the left edge 'I. Zæchenberger. Pinxit.', later gilt-metal frames, 7.4cm by 8.7cm (2)

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Provenance:
Private collection, London

Josef Zächenberger, who trained as a painter with his father and A. Ruffini, worked as a painter at the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory between 1760 and 1770, where he is thought to have been responsible for the finest flower painting of the Hofservice. A Nymphenburg porcelain snuff box very finely painted with flowers by Josef Zächenberger, signed 'J. Zæchenberger Pictor', is published by A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan Sammlung Bäuml (1997), no. 721. Between 1772 and 1779, he painted wall and ceiling panels for the Tattenbach Palais in Munich (now in the Bavarian National Museum,
inv. no. 51/103.1-147. A painting by Zächenberger of a country fair of around 1780 is in the Munich Stadtmuseum, inv. no. GM-IIb/9.

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