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Lot Essay
According to Dr. Berling, Michel-Victor Acier modelled the present lot after the drawings of Johann Elias Zeissig, called Schönau (b. 1737).
Acier (1736-95), a French sculptor, was brought from France to introduce the latest in fashionable French Louis XVI designs very much in the manner of those published by Joseph Marie Vien in his Suite de Vases composee dans le Gout de l'Antique (1760), in the hope that this would help Meissen to compete with Sèvres and resuscitate Meissen's trade after the financial problems brought about by the Seven Years' War.
For an example with a cover and stand (the stand in particular would appear to be unassociated with the écuelle), see Dr. K. Berling, Königlich Sächssissche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen (1910), p. 73, pl. 175 F42 and p. 76 (later published as Meissen China, An Illustrated History [New York, 1972], pl. 175). Also see Otto Walcha, Meissner Porzellan (1973), pp. 488-9, no. 160 for a white example of the same form without a cover or stand.
Acier (1736-95), a French sculptor, was brought from France to introduce the latest in fashionable French Louis XVI designs very much in the manner of those published by Joseph Marie Vien in his Suite de Vases composee dans le Gout de l'Antique (1760), in the hope that this would help Meissen to compete with Sèvres and resuscitate Meissen's trade after the financial problems brought about by the Seven Years' War.
For an example with a cover and stand (the stand in particular would appear to be unassociated with the écuelle), see Dr. K. Berling, Königlich Sächssissche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen (1910), p. 73, pl. 175 F42 and p. 76 (later published as Meissen China, An Illustrated History [New York, 1972], pl. 175). Also see Otto Walcha, Meissner Porzellan (1973), pp. 488-9, no. 160 for a white example of the same form without a cover or stand.