A Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor - image-1

Lot 1208 Dα

A Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.200 €
Result: 945 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor

The centre decorated with two circling Fenghuang birds, the border with a two large gilt scaled dragons, chinese knot motifs, scrolls and a coin. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 22. The basal ring wiped. D 23 cm.
C. 1740 - 50.

Work on the Dresden court service with the Red Dragon ordered by King August III began in early November 1734. Deliveries to the Japanese Palace, the Dresden Court Confectionery and Court Kitchen are recorded from 1735 at the latest.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Further examples from this extensive service in Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 237 - 238.
Cf. also Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 236 ff., p. 276.