A Nymphenburg porcelain part dinner service, circa 1765-70
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600 EUR
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Description
painted in shades of green with vignettes of riverside landscapes, supported by gilt trellis arbours interlaced with trailing flowers, with hanging gilt and green garlands inside the gilt-edged shaped rims, comprising:
fourteen dinner plates, 9 ⅞ in; 25 cm diam.;
twelve soup plates 9 ⅞ in; 25 cm diam.;
two oval dishes, 9 ¼ in; 23,5 cm wide,
impressed shield marks, various impressed marks, one with hexagram mark in underglaze-blue
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Property from the Henle Collection, Sotheby’s, London, 25 November 1997, lot 143 (part);
Acquired at the above sale.
Pieces from this service, or from a closely related service, are preserved in the Bäuml Collection and are illustrated and discussed in Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan: Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, pp. 186–191, cat. nos. 523–548, where further surviving examples are recorded. Additional pieces are held in major institutional collections, including a tureen with lemon finial in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (inv. no. Ker 2577), and a plate in the Art Institute of Chicago (ref. no. 1963.238). Notably, seven plates from this or a related service formed part of the distinguished pre-war collection of Dr. Paul von Ostermann, Darmstadt, and were sold at Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, 30 October–2 November 1928, lot 650.
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