CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, ONE WITH PRESSNUMMERN 21 AND 35, OTHER WITH 21 AND 56

Details

TWO MEISSEN BRÜHLSCHE ALLERLEI DESSERT-PLATES
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, ONE WITH PRESSNUMMERN 21 AND 35, OTHER WITH 21 AND 56
One painted with a sliced root vegetable, the other with a halved apple, an apple and a strip of peel, both with bouquets and scattered sprays within shaped pierced trellis borders with pierced panels of flowers, shaped gilt line rims (minute wear to gilding)
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Geneva, 14th November 1983, lot 142
Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson Collection, Orlando, Florida, sale Christie's, London, 1st June 1992, lot 72
With Armin B. Allen, London (plate with sliced vegetable)

Anonymous sale (A Collection of Important Meissen Porcelain, The Property of a Gentleman), sale Sotheby's, London, 10th July 1973, lot 99 (part)
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 25th April 1998, lot 58 (plate with apples)

Literature

A. Allen et al., Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, Exhibition Catalogue, no. 53

Exhibited

Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, March 1988 - February 1989

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A service of this design, modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein was made for Heinrich, Count von Brühl in 1742. The main printed source was Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, published in four volumes in Regensburg between 1737-45. For two similar plates, see D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, pp. 348, nos. 225-226, where the Anderson Collection plate is listed.

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