A Meissen porcelain plate from the Saxon court service with the blue ribbon - image-1
A Meissen porcelain plate from the Saxon court service with the blue ribbon - image-2
A Meissen porcelain plate from the Saxon court service with the blue ribbon - image-1A Meissen porcelain plate from the Saxon court service with the blue ribbon - image-2

Lot 1111 Dα

A Meissen porcelain plate from the Saxon court service with the blue ribbon

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.000 € (incl. premium)

A Meissen porcelain plate from the Saxon court service with the blue ribbon

Unidentified model decorated with a bundle of fruits, flowers and a canary bird. Blue crossed swords mark with star and I in the basal ring, dreher's number 32. D 23.3 cm.
Circa 1777, decor presumably based on designs by Johann Elaezar Zeissig (called Schenau).

"This dinner service with the so-called “blue ribbon” was the last made by the Meissen manufactory for the Dresden court and Prince Elector Friedrich August III. It was produced during a transitional time when the Neoclassical style was first beginning to develop, as evidenced in the angular handles of the tureens and cups, the entwined staffs and chain pattern décor (compare SKD inv. no. PE 6875 a, b).
Michel Victor Acier modelled this service for the imperial count and its painted decoration has been tentatively attributed to Johann Eleazer Schenau (1737 – 1806), who we know was responsible for the prototypes on which the native flora and fauna designs were based."

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

"Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 117.
Further items from this service in the Porzellansammlung des SKD: A tureen and stand (inv. no. PE 6875 a, b); two plates (inv. no. PE 6886 and PE 6326); a dish (inv. no. PE 6872).
For more on this serice see cat. Triumph der Schwerter, Leipzig 2010, cat. no. 477."