A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE CELADON AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND OVAL DISH

CIRCA 1885, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED Y.190, 19/55 AND IMPRESSED 138

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PATE-SUR-PATE CELADON AND COBALT-BLUE GROUND OVAL DISH
CIRCA 1885, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED Y.190, 19/55 AND IMPRESSED 138
Finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a grapevine-adorned Bacchante offering a saucer of wine to a putto seated atop a lion, a thyrsus in his hand, the oval surround molded and enriched with shells edged by gilt entrelac ribbons and black tracery
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 29 October 2002, lot 360.

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Lot Essay

The hand modeling technique, pâte-sur-pâte, was first successfully produced at Meissen in 1878. In 1880 Ludwig Sturm, the new head of the painting department, became the overseer of production. Sturm encouraged a more lively and spirited approach to classicism. His influence is credited with greatly furthering this area of production. See B. Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, 1992, p. 179-189.

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