Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A MEISSEN PLATE OR STAND, CIRCA 1725
Lot Closed
August 12, 03:26 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A MEISSEN PLATE OR STAND, CIRCA 1725
painted with a central bird surrounded by small winged insects, within bunches of flowers tied by ribbons suspended from the rim around the cavetto, the underglaze-blue diaper-patterned rim reserved with four gilt-edged cartouches of European hunting scenes, the reverse with two large trailing flowering branches painted with large green leaves, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
diameter 8⅝ in.
21.9 cm
Röbbig München, March 2006
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 173, p. 422, illus.
A large dish with this type of decoration (13 3/8 in. diameter), formerly in the collection of Dr. Siegfried Ducret, Zürich, was sold at Bonhams London, July 2, 2019, lot 26. A further smaller plate is in the Malcom D. Gutter Collection, San Francisco, illustrated in Santangelo, 2018, cat. no. 50. A further plate in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection is illustrated in Rückert, 1966, p. 72, no. 132.