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Lot 822 Dα

A steel plaque with a portrait of Johann Friedrich Böttger

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 16:00 - Decorative Arts Furniture
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
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A steel plaque with a portrait of Johann Friedrich Böttger

Relief portrait of the chemist in an open shirt and drapery. Minor rim dents. Diameter 9.5 cm.
After a model by François Coudray, presumably after 1719.

In honour of the inventor of European hard porcelain, Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682 - 1719), the Saxon court sculptor François Coudray (1678 - 1727) produced a model of a medal with Böttger's likeness after his death. A version in red Böttger stoneware dated around 1723 - 25 is now in the Gotha Castle Museum collection (inv. no. St 6). This version in steel is exactly the same size as the one in Böttger stoneware, only without the inscription, and is so finely cast and chased that it can be assumed to be from Coudray's lifetime. The GDR celebrated Böttger's 300th birthday in 1982 with a modified edition of the design in white porcelain.

Literature

Cf. cat. Meißen Frühzeit und Gegenwart. Johann Friedrich Böttger zu Ehren, Dresden 1982, illus. I/64.