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 IMARI PLATE CIRCA 1735
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A MEISSEN IMARI PLATE CIRCA 1735
painted in underglaze-blue, enriched in enamels and gilding with two insects among flowering branches, within concentric circles, the rim with iron-red cell band reserving cartouches of flowering branches, the reverse with two flowering branches, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, III in underglaze-blue, and incised Dreher's mark XII for Johann Christoph Leibnitz to inside edge of footrim (Rückert 1990, p. 117).
Diameter: 8⅝ in.
22 cm
Andreina Torre Collection, Zürich
The Estate of the late Andreina Torre, Christie's Geneva, November 16, 1992, lot 169
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 215a, p. 476, illus.
A further plate in this pattern was in the Hoffmeister Collection, published in Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 1999, Vol. I, no. 165, sold at Bonhams London, November, 2010, lot 37.