An oval Nymphenburg porcelain platter with a harvest scene - image-1
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Lot 1394 Dα

An oval Nymphenburg porcelain platter with a harvest scene

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
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An oval Nymphenburg porcelain platter with a harvest scene

Scalloped plate with moulded rim. Painted with a large and detailed scene of peasants cutting corn against a rural landscape backdrop. Impressed rhombus mark, incised 44. Restored. W 43.6 cm.
Ca. 1770 – 75, décor attributed to Joseph Kaltner.

Ziffer provides a short description of the porcelain painter Joseph Kaltner's career: He worked for the Nymphenburg manufactory since his apprenticeship from 1765 to 1776 and, following a stay in Paris, returned to Munich and Vienna in 1780 where he was employed as a court painter and miniaturist. The décor of this platter already anticipates the quality of his later oeuvre.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Paul v. Ostermann, Darmstadt-Munich, auctioned by Cassirer/Helbing, Berlin on 30th October - 2nd November 1928, lot 654.
G. Röbbig, Munich.
Private collection, Palatinate.

Literature

Illus. in Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg, 1. Buch, Leipzig 1923, illus. 77.
Cf. A similarly decorated tray dated 1778 by Kaltner in Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart 1997, no. 612.