A Meissen porcelain plate with a blackbird motif - image-1

Lot 1383 Dα

A Meissen porcelain plate with a blackbird motif

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 938 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain plate with a blackbird motif

Decorated with a large, naturallistically rendered bird, presumably based on an engraving. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 36. Some minor localised pigment losses. D 24 cm.
Ca. 1760, model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Cf. cat. Sammlung Hoffmeister, vol. I, Hamburg 1999, no. 193, an identical plate with a great tit. Dieter Hoffmeister lists a total of 40 plates with this decoration discovered by him since 1979. The service was supposedly gifted to the American William Randolph Hearst (1863 – 1951) by the German government in the 1930s and subsequently passed into the ownership of Paula de Koenigsberg in Buenos Aires.