
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE CIRCULAR STAND OR PLATE
CIRCA 1728
the center vibrantly painted with a large medallion of chrysanthemum flowerheads against iron-red foliage, framed within a gilded band of scrollwork embellished with Böttger-lustre, the rim painted with four panels of chinoiserie figures within lustre filled cartouches embellished with puce and iron-red foliate scrolls, joined by gilded scrollwork, the reverse of the rim painted with three branches of indianische Blumen, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue
diameter 8½ in.
21.6 cm
G. Röbbig, Munich, bearing label
Acquired from the above in 2002
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen, January 19 - April 6 1997
Ulrich Pietsch and Kristian Jacobsen,Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1997, p. 210, cat. no. 166.
A plate or stand from this service was in the Dr. Ludwig Darmstädter Collection, Berlin, sold, Rudolph Lepke's, Berlin, March 24-26, 1925, lot 132, and subsequently entered the Hoffmeister Collection, illustrated in Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 1999, Band I, pp. 112-113, no. 54.
Six further examples were in the Franz and Margarete Oppenheimer Collection, which subsequently entered the Collections of Fritz Mannheimer; and Maurice de Rothschild, sold (anonymously) at his sales at Christie's London, March 28, 1977, lots 22 and 23, and October 17, 1977, lots 8-10. Four of these plates then entered a Swiss private Collection and were sold again at Christie's London, December 11, 2007, lots 12-14.