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Lot 1644 Dα

A Meissen porcelain platter with a parrot and a Bolognese dog

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: 1.750 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain platter with a parrot and a Bolognese dog

Scalloped platter with moulded rim. The lip decorated with gilt rimmed brown acanthus tendrils and shell motifs, the well with a depiction of a parrot and a barking Bolognese dog. Numerous insects conceal minor flaws in the mass. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 20, incised II in the basal ring. Minor wear to the gilt edging and the ground. D 30 cm.
Around 1740.

The Dresden Porcelain Collection houses parts of a coffee and tea service with the same decor. Until the publication of the catalogue of the Ole Olsen Collection in 1927, it was not known that a dinner service with this décor also existed. There were over 50 service pieces in the Danish collection.

Provenance

Auctioned by Christie's London on 28th March 1977, lot 83.
Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

A further plate from this service in the Wark Collection, illus. in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 576.