CIRCA 1780-84, BLUE WHEEL MARKS, VARIOUS INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS

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EIGHT HÖCHST PORCELAIN PLATES AND A BOWL ENSUITE
CIRCA 1780-84, BLUE WHEEL MARKS, VARIOUS INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS
Painted by J.H. Usinger with classical figures in square gilt-framed panels festooned with garlands above gilt script titles in French, comprising:
Two pink-ground plates,
Three blue-scale-ground plates,
Three soup-plates,
A bowl
The largest 9 7⁄8 in. (25 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection, Philadelphia (according to collector's label attached to the underside of the bowl).

Special notice

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay

R.G. Vater Collection no. 607 (paper collection label applied to the underside of the blue-scale-ground plates).
R.G. Vater Collection no. 590 (paper collection label applied to the underside of the bowl).

A pink-ground plate in the British Museum (museum no. Franks.152), most probably from the same service as the pink ground examples in the present lot, is signed by Johann Heinrich Usinger and dated 1784. The decoration on these plates is derived from etchings by François-Anne David, after engravings published in Pitture antiche d'Ercolano, Book II, Rome, 1780, which recorded the murals of Pompeii and Herculaneum. For further discussion of services with this type of decoration see Christina Kallieris, 'Antikenrezeption im späten 18. Jahrhundert anhand von Höchster Porzellantellern', in Keramos, no. 223, 2014, pp. 13-44.

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