Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
A MEISSEN HAUSMALER PLATE CIRCA 1735-40
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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MEISSEN HAUSMALER PLATE CIRCA 1735-40
painted by Hans Gottlieb von Bressler, with four putti playing games, in a gilt and brightly enameled cartouche frame, the rim with four panels of alternating fruit and flowers connected by gilt strapwork, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Dreher's mark XI or IX
Diameter: 9⅛ in.
23.2 cm
M. Salomon, Dresden
Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold, Dresden, May 1929
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 325, p. 642, illus.
The four figures are taken from two engravings La Jouste and La Poste, taken from Jacques Stella's Les Jeux et plaisris [sic] l'enfance, published in 1657 in Paris, pl. 35, reproduced by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York, 2008, figs. 325.1, 325.2.
Hans Syz, et. al, Catalogue of The Hanz Syz Collection, Washington D.C., 1979, Vol. 1, p. 514, notes that Hans Gottlieb, a student of Ignaz Bottengruber, was a member of the Silesian Nobility [his son Gottleib Wilhelm, born in 1743, was elevated to the title of Graf in 1781], and for the last eleven years of his life was the Mayor of Breslau. It is believed he decorated porcelain as gifts for members of his family. Other pieces from this service were still in possession of the Counts of Bressler, when published by Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und Porzellan Hausmaler, Leipzig, 1925.