A Niedermayer porcelain déjeuner with views of imperial palaces in Vienna
Comprising an oval tray inscribed "Vue de la ville de vienne, de ses fauxbourgs et environs, prise du Château du Belvédère", a large jug with cover inscribed "Vue du château J:R: de Schloßhof, du côté du jardin, en Hongrie", a smaller jug without cover inscribed "Vue du château de Plaisance J:R: à Hetzendorf", a navette-form sugar bowl, and two cups with original saucers inscribed "Vue de Gloriétte au jardin J:R: de Schoenbrunn" and "Vue du château gothique dans le jardin J:R: à Laxenbourg".
The finely painted vedutas in rectangular etched gilt reserves on a foliate background. The necks of the jugs and base of the dish decorated with blue and white diapered borders. Blue bindenschild mark, year mark 816 and 817, the tray signed "Schufried 1816" for Jakob Schufried, gilder's no. II for Karl Herzer, dreher's mark. H of tray 3.3, W 42 cm.
Vienna, Niedermayer manufactory, 1816 - 17, the decor presumably based on a design by Karl Herzer.
Provenance
Sotheby´s Royal House of Hanover auction, Marienburg Palace, 9th October 2005, lot 2345.
Literature
Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 93.
According to Lehner-Jobst, just one similar déjeuner, also signed Schufried 1818 to the tray, is kept in the MAK in Vienna (inv. no. KHL 267, ibid. p. 305).
Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Charlottenburg Palace, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009