A Hchst ormolu-mounted oval biscuit portrait plaque of Baron von Groschlag

CIRCA 1772

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A Hchst ormolu-mounted oval biscuit portrait plaque of Baron von Groschlag
Circa 1772
Modelled by J.P. Melchior, with a half-length portrait of a gentleman in profile to the right, his hair en queue, and wearing the badge of the order of Saint Stephen suspended from a ribbon around his neck, on a dimpled ground (minute chipping to rim) the glazed stepped oval ormolu frame surmounted by cast C-scrolls and a pendant laurel swag
The plaque 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

For a similar plaque in the Historisches Museum, Franc-fort-sur-le-Main, see Peter Wilhelm Meister and Horst Reber, La Porcelaine Europenne du XVIII<->e Sicle, p. 91, no. 88.

For similarly modelled biscuit portrait plaques of Goethe's parents, modelled by Melchior at the Frankenthal factory in 1779, see Friedrich H. Hofmann, op. cit. (1911), Taf. 148, nos. 595 and 596.

The Austro-Hungarian Order of St. Stephen was founded by Empress Maria Theresa in 1764, and was awarded for exceptional civil service. Stephen I (997-1038) introduced Christianity to Hungary, later becoming the country's patron Saint.

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