A Meissen porcelain waste bowl, the decoration probably circa 1735-40
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 EUR
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Description
painted with a continuous battle scene of Turkish and European cavalry in combat and an encampment beyond, and with cannon, flags and drums in the foreground, the interior with a burnished gold ground reserved with a purple monochrome landscape scene with horsemen within iron-red concentric circles, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilder’s mark H. in gilding, incised V mark to footrim
Diameter 16.9 cm; 6 ⅝ in
Bonhams, London, 14 May 2008, lot 51;
Acquired at the above sale.
Painters at Meissen drew on a variety of engraved sources for battle scenes, including works after G.P. Rugendas, Philips Wouwermann, Georg Conrad Bodenehr and Jan von Hughtenburg, as well as depictions of the Turkish wars engraved in Augsburg by Jeremiah Wolff, see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, p. 133. The figures on this bowl are based on three different engravings by Georg Conrad Bodenehr (1673-1710) after Georg Philipp Rugendas the Elder; see Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre Grafischen Vorlagen, Band II, Petersberg, 2018, p. 324, no. 253, p. 328, no. 255 and p. 334, no. 260, for the prints in the Meissen manufactory archive.
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