A RARE MEISSEN CHINOISERIE ÉCUELLE STAND OR SMALL PLATE CIRCA 1735

Six plates of this approximate size were included in the Argyropoulo 1927 sale, sold in twos for a total of 1,110 guineas, but as the dishes were not illustrated in the catalogue they are now indistinguishable. The sale likely included some of the following dishes now in Museum collections; two dishes (22.4 cm diameter) from the Collection of Margarete and Franz Oppenheimer are now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, published in Abraham L. den Blaauwen,Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 156-57, cat. no. 89; one dish (22.4 cm diameter) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gifted by Thornton Wilson in 1954, published in Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, 'Graphic Sources for Meissen Porcelain: Origins of the Print Collection in the Meissen Archives', Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 31, p. 103, fig. 13, and another is in the Dr. Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim, published in Renate Eikelmann, Meiβener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Die Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloß Lustheim, Munich, 2004, p. 122, cat. no. 32. Others are in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. One was in the W. von Dallwitz Collection, Berlin, by 1904, illustrated in Adolf Brüning, Europäisches Porzellan des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1904, cat. no. 166, pl. IX.

A larger dish (28.9 cm diameter) from the Hoffmeister Collection is published in Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Band I, 1999, pp. 142-143, cat. no. 66, sold, Bonhams, London, November 29, 2009, lot 55. The decoration on the present plate derives from plate 44 of the Schulz-Codex.