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Lot 194*

A Nymphenburg dish from the 'Hofservice', circa 1760-65

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

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Nymphenburg dish from the 'Hofservice', circa 1760-65

Superbly painted, probably by Joseph Zächenberger, with a large flower spray and further scattered blooms, as well as a butterflies and a crane fly, the moulded, gilt-edged rims enclosing a blue line above a band of gilt scrollwork enclosing flower sprigs, 37.2 diam., impressed shield mark and number 4 (handles missing, some restoration)

Footnotes

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.

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