CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 21

Details

A MEISSEN DISH FROM THE ROYAL 'GRÜNES WATTEAU' SERVICE
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 21
Moulded with Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen, the centre painted after Watteau in Kupfer grün enriched with flesh tones with a seated gallant and companion in a landscape beside an obelisk, the border with four polychrome sprays of deutsche Blumen within a lobed gilt line rim
11 in. (28 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Augustus III (1696-1763), King of Poland and Elector of Saxony
Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G79

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The 'Grünes Watteau' service was one of the largest services produced for the Saxon Court in the 1740s. For a plate from the service and a listing of other examples in museums and which have appeared on the market, see D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, pp. 310-111, no. 199. A similar service was manufactured for the Russian court, which is now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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