A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE LARGE DISH, the centre painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with Orientals at various pursuits including a mother and child before a boy holding birds and a bowl of flowers, a man taking tea before a brazier and another with a bowl of berries, on an elaborate stepped support with gilt ombrierte scrolls, shells and diaper-pattern and Böttger lustre reserved with three quatrefoil cartouches painted in puce camaieu with harbour scenes, within a gilt scroll well, the broad rim with four panels painted in schwarzlot with harbour scenes and gilt foliage scrolls between four smaller panels painted in purple camaieu with Fabeltiere beasts, the underside with scattered indianische Blumen (slight rubbing to gilding and slight scratching to enamels), blue crossed swords and Dreher's quartered circle and incised 3, circa 1735

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE LARGE DISH, the centre painted in the manner of C.F. Herold with Orientals at various pursuits including a mother and child before a boy holding birds and a bowl of flowers, a man taking tea before a brazier and another with a bowl of berries, on an elaborate stepped support with gilt ombrierte scrolls, shells and diaper-pattern and Böttger lustre reserved with three quatrefoil cartouches painted in puce camaieu with harbour scenes, within a gilt scroll well, the broad rim with four panels painted in schwarzlot with harbour scenes and gilt foliage scrolls between four smaller panels painted in purple camaieu with Fabeltiere beasts, the underside with scattered indianische Blumen (slight rubbing to gilding and slight scratching to enamels), blue crossed swords and Dreher's quartered circle and incised 3, circa 1735
30.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The painter of this dish can be associated stylistically with that of the Clemens August service of 1735, attributed to C.F. Herold. Other dishes of this type are known, but unusual inclusions in this example are the Schwarzlot and Fabeltiere decoration on the rim. A dish of similar type is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City and a plate is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, illustrated in the Museum Guide Saksisch Porselein, pl. 29

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