Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 152
A Meissen plate, circa 1740
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen plate, circa 1740
With wavy, brown-edged rim, painted after a Chinese original with a peacock perched on a flowering branch opposite stylised rockwork and gnarled branches, the border painted with panels alternating between four different garden scenes, including Chinese figures and a fancy bird displaying its tail, the reverse of the rim with a border of trailing plants and rocks, a curious flowering tree issuing from stylised rockwork painted in the centre of the base above the Meissen factory mark, 26cm diam., crossed swords mark and o in underglaze-blue, impressed 20
Footnotes
A similar example is in the Arnhold Collection, New York; see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), p.489, no. 224, where the author notes that the mark on the reverse is based upon a Japanese model. Another identical plate was in the Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, sold in these Rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 14.
