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A documentary Vienna cabinet plate, circa 1815 image 1
A documentary Vienna cabinet plate, circa 1815 image 2
The Twinight Collection
Lot 54*

A documentary Vienna cabinet plate, circa 1815

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

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A documentary Vienna cabinet plate, circa 1815

Superbly painted by Joseph Fischer, signed l.r. 'J. Fischer', with a nest with four birds and a butterfly among primula and other flowers and leaves, a pedestal and trees visible in the background, within a gilt band and salmon-pink ground to the gilt-edged rim, 24.5cm diam., shield mark in underglaze-blue, impressed date code 815 and 32 (restored)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 6 May 1999, lot 156;
The Twinight Collection

Literature:
S. Wittwer, Raffinesse & Eleganz: Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Twinight Collection, New York (2007), no. 79

Exhibited:
Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Schloss Charlottenburg, Rafinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunders aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, 28 July-4 November 2007;
Vienna, Liechtenstein Museum, Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800-1840, 16 November 2007-11 February 2008;
Paris, Musée national de la céramique à Sèvres, Sèvres - Vienne - Berlin, Ors et décors : 1800-1850, 26 March-13 July 2008;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Refinement & Elegance - Early Nineteenth Century Royal porcelain from an American private collection, 9 September 2008-19 April 2009

Joseph Fischer worked as a flower painter at the Vienna manufactory from around 1802 until his death in 1843. In 1834 he was Obermaler and, alongside Joseph Nigg, is considered the leading painter of still lives.

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