Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 28
A very rare Meissen Imari dish, circa 1725-30
7 – 8 July 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,570 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A very rare Meissen Imari dish, circa 1725-30
The fluted dish with a scalloped rim, painted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with flowering branches in the centre and sixteen radiating panels of alternating trellis and floral patterns reserved with scattered chrysanthemum medallions, the reverse with a band of foliate and floral scrollwork in iron-red, underglaze-blue and gilding, 21.5cm diam., large crossed swords mark within concentric circles in underglaze-blue (some scattered wear to gilding)
Footnotes
A fluted Japanese Imari dish in the Victoria & Albert Museum with similar decoration of radiating panels, but with prunus blossoms in the centre, is published J. Ayres/O. Impery/J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces (1990), no. 238. A similar Meissen dish was sold from the Royal collections of Saxony, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 7-8 October 1919, lot 147.
