CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN PLATE
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Decorated with Oriental and European scenes, the centre painted by C.F. Herold with four chinoiserie vignettes of Orientals at various pursuits on elaborate Regence supports with gilt scrolls between Böttger-lustre panels with gilt diaper ornament, the panels joined by gilt and black line strapwork enclosing Böttger-lustre panels, the well with a band of gilt diaper ornament enclosing quatrefoils, the border painted by another hand with four landscape vignettes, one with a huntsman shooting water-fowl, within elongated gilt quatrefoil cartouches with slender Böttger-lustre panels issuing scrolling gilt foliage centred by lozenge-shaped Böttger-lustre panels between black and gilt flowerheads, the underside with scattered indianische Blumen (areas of slight wear)
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Antique Porcelain Company, from whom it was acquired in 1965.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a discussion of this service see Dieter Hoffmeister, Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), nos. 60-64. Several of the Chinoiserie vignettes can be directly related to the Schulz Codex and many more preparatory drawings must once have existed. The detail above is taken from sheet 96 of the Schulz Codex.

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