Lot Essay
Another plate from the service is illustrated by Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence und Porzellan Hausmaler (Leipzig, 1925), Vol. II, p. 342, no. 305.
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1760-70
Details
A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI PLATE
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1760-70
Painted by F.F. Mayer of Pressnitz, with a family watching a peep show in a magic lantern surmounted by a drummer and flanked by the attendant and a child, the Dulong-pattern moulded border with four vignettes of buildings and ruins in wooded estuary landscapes, gilt line border (rim chip at 3 o'clock, slightly warped and with firing crack to underside, slight chipping to footrim)
10 1/8 in. (25.6 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1760-70
Painted by F.F. Mayer of Pressnitz, with a family watching a peep show in a magic lantern surmounted by a drummer and flanked by the attendant and a child, the Dulong-pattern moulded border with four vignettes of buildings and ruins in wooded estuary landscapes, gilt line border (rim chip at 3 o'clock, slightly warped and with firing crack to underside, slight chipping to footrim)
10 1/8 in. (25.6 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 10th March 1970, lot 90
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6th June 1973, lot 38
With M. & G. Segal, Basel, 2000
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6th June 1973, lot 38
With M. & G. Segal, Basel, 2000
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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Dominic Simpson