CIRCA 1742, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

細節

A Meissen octagonal dish from the Christie-Miller Service
Circa 1742, blue crossed swords mark
The centre painted with cavalry officers and soldiers in an extensive wooded river landscape with buildings to the left within a richly gilt diaper-pattern well reserved with four quatrefoil Purpurmalerei medallions with figures, one with a milestone with the crossed swords, within a further border of richly gilt interlocking foliage, scrolls and strapwork flanking four quatrefoil medallions painted in colours with figures by buildings, an estuary and wooded landscapes, within gilt line borders (some very minor wear to gilding and enamel of well at 8 o'clock)
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) wide

來源

The late S.R. Christie-Miller, sale Sotheby's London, 7th July 1970.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The engravings by Melchoir Küsel for Verschiedene ansichte in Italien, Cärnthen und Friul, published by Johann Wilhelm Bauer in Augsburg in 1679, were used as a graphic source for this service. Although the service is arguably the finest of the period and must have been a special commission, unfortunately its early provenance still remains obscure. Until the appearance of 72 pieces from the Estate of the late S.R. Christie-Miller at Sotheby's in 1970, only one piece of the service, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, had been known and published.

Other octagonal dishes from the service were sold in our Geneva Rooms on 13th November 1989, lots 155 and 156, and on 8th May 1989, lot 103. Three, sold by Sotheby's on 7th July 1970, lots 1, 20 and 43, are now in the Pflueger Collection, New York, and are illustrated in the catalogue by Hugo Morley-Fletcher, 'Early European Porcelain & Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pflueger' (London, 1993), pp. 42-45.