An early Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor - image-1
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An early Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor - image-1An early Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor - image-2

Lot 1631 Dα

An early Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.875 € (incl. premium)
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An early Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor

Decorated in the centre with two circling fenghuang birds and around the lip with two gold-scaled dragons and Chinese knot motifs with scrolls and coins. Blue caduceus mark, incised dreher's mark // in the basal ring for Johann Gottlieb Geithner. With minor wear. D 22.2 cm.
1729 - 31.

This well-known and frequently produced service with the Red Dragon, which gained its fame as one of the Saxon court services produced by royal order of August III in 1734, seems to have originally been ordered by the Meissen manufactory director Count von Hoym and the French merchant Rudolphe Lemaire, which Claus Boltz was able to prove for the first time in 1980 (Keramos 88/1980, pp. 3 - 101). The caduceus or Aescula staff mark used on Meissen porcelains until 1731 proves the early production of the plate in question here, meaning that it was produced before the large order from August III, which brings it into connection with the first designs for the decor.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, p. 246 and cat. no. 236.
An identical plate housed in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Inv.Nr. ЗФ-16730.