A Meissen porcelain circular dish or stand, circa 1735-40
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Lot closes
June 25, 09:12 AM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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400 EUR
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Description
the centre painted with a phoenix bird flanked by three sprays of indianische Blumen, the rim with three shaped cartouches of European figures in landscapes, reserved against gilt-diaper Böttger-lustre panels, and scrollwork, the cavetto with a band of scrolls, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, Dreher’s mark
Diameter 9in; 22,8 cm
Anonymous sale, Christie’s, Paris, 29 April 2014, lot 137.
Claudia Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord Meissener Porzellanmalerei und ihre grafischen vorlagen, Band 2, Dresden, 2018, pp. 66-67, fig. 49a.
The present dish is illustrated in Bodinek, op. cit., where the author identifies two possible print sources for the female figure and cattle depicted within one of the cartouches on the rim: an engraving by Jan de Visscher after Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, and another by Lauwerens Scherm.
Cranfield University used non-invasive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected, a result consistent with 18th century manufacture.
