
Sebastian Kuhn
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See Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan Sammlung Bäuml (1997), pp. 133ff., for a discussion of this lavish style of decoration attributed to Joseph Zächenberger. Friedrich Hofmann described it as service for the court of the Bavarian Elector, Maximilian III. Joseph, a suggestion supported by the splendid garniture of five vases decorated in similar style in the Residenzmuseum, as well as a handful of other pieces that came from the Residence. Ziffer (p. 133) differentiated between the large, dark-toned flower bouquets, such as the present example, and other pieces painted with rather looser arrangements of flowers in a paler palette. It is possible that the latter represent a later delivery.