Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 156
A very large Meissen dish, last quarter 18th century
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,147.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A very large Meissen dish, last quarter 18th century
Painted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with a bird perched on rockwork flanked by flowering indianische Blumen within concentric lines around the well, the rim with indianische Blumen issuing from rockwork, the reverse with an underglaze-blue band of stylised scrolling foliage, 38.6cm diam., crossed swords mark and asterisk in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals, numeral in iron-red and /. in underglaze blue inside footrim
Footnotes
A similarly decorated large dish is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (Cassidy-Geiger 2008, no. 223). The author notes that the decoration is based on a Japanese dish, one of 804 Asian ceramics left to Augustus the Strong in 1722 by a member of his court, Daniel Friedrich Raschke, who acted as his agent in Holland.
