A Meissen porcelain plate with hussars
The centre decorated with a depiction of two sabre-wielding hussars on horseback being shot at by soldiers in a river landscape. The border with four flower garlands. No crossed swords mark, dreher's mark of Johann Daniel Rehschuh. With a restored breakage to the border at 5 o'clock, glaze wear. D 23 cm.
The porcelain Meissen, around 1730, the decor attributed to Franz Ferdinand Mayer in Pressnitz/ Prísecnice, 1730 - 50.
Franz Ferdiand Meyer or Mayer from Pressnitz in Bohemia - present day Prísecnice in the Czech Republic - was one of the most well known painters of white Meissen porcelain. He is identifiable through a square Meissen porcelain plaque signed by the artist and dated "15. Juny 1752". The plaque, housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Inv. no. C.117-1937), depicts a family tree of the imperial couple and their five children with a space left empty for the sixth child "in Spe.". This signed and dated panel provides us with insights into his skill as an enameller and miniaturist on porcelain and has formed the basis for all further attributions.
The motif was drawn in a similar manner by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751 - 1829), see lot 2316 from the catalogue Neue Meister, Lempertz auction 1197, on Saturday, 21st May 2022.
Literature
For more on Franz Ferdinand Meyer or Mayer see Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. 2, Leipzig 1925/Reprint Stuttgart 1971, p. 318 ff.