A Meissen porcelain bowl with a purple fantastic beast motif - image-1

Lot 1365 Dα

A Meissen porcelain bowl with a purple fantastic beast motif

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain bowl with a purple fantastic beast motif

Decorated with a bizarre fantastic beast surrounded by Oriental shrubs and scattered flowers. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 20, incised II. H 6.5, D 28.2 cm.
Ca. 1745, decoration after Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck.

This rare plate uses the same decoration as the known and published pieces with the coat-of-arms of Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen, Minister of the Electorate of Hanover, which he received as a gift from the Saxon King August III in 1745. It is possible that this bowl and the four published plates were the first versions of the service before the drawing for the coat-of-arms arrived.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Cf. a plate with this decoration in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
A further dinner plate in cat. Sammlung Hoffmeister, vol. I, Hamburg 1999, no. 188.
Two further plates in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, no. 223 f.
For more on the Münchhausen-Service see Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 - 50, New York-London 2008, no. 204.