A Meissen porcelain plate with "yellow lion" decor - image-1

Lot 1200 Dα

A Meissen porcelain plate with "yellow lion" decor

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 756 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain plate with "yellow lion" decor

Deep dish with Kakiemon style decor depicting golden eyed tigers, bamboo and prunus. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 67, owner's mark "K.H.C" in puce. Wear and scratches. D 26 cm.
C. 1750 - 60.

The tiger and bamboo decor appears in the inventory of the Royal Court Confectionery in 1731 under the designation "yellow lion" on at least 111 pieces of crockery. The decor had already been produced for Lemaire, albeit under a different name. After the end of the Lemaire-Hoym affair and the fall of Count Carl Heinrich von Hoym (1694 - 1736), the porcelain items in question were transferred to the Japanese Palace. Work on a yellow lion dinner service for the new King August III is documented as of 1734.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 261. p. ibid. p. 271 ff, for the K.H.C. mark.