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Lot 1143 Dα

A Royal Vienna porcelain plate 'Apelles and Alexander'

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €
Result: 2.125 € (incl. premium)
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A Royal Vienna porcelain plate 'Apelles and Alexander'

The scene labelled in black on the reverse. Inscribed "A. Kauffmann" in the lower left of the well. Blue 'bindenschild' mark, year stamp 803, pressnummer 35, gold F. Small scratch to the well. D 24.3 cm.
Imperial Vienna Porcelain Manufactory under Konrad von Sorgenthal, 1803, the decoration probably later.

"The motif of this plate is based on a design by Angelika Kauffmann (1741 – 1807) which she produced as a copperplate engraving in 1783. At 33 cm in diameter, it was among the artist's smaller works (the tondo is today housed in Bregenz, Amt der Landeshauptstadt, Kultur). It was realised in mezzotint by Thomas Burke and published in London in 1786.
The story depicted here is related in Pliny the Elder's ""Naturalis historiae"" and tells of how Alexander the Great presented his concubine Campaspe to the artist Apelles."

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

For the motif upon which this work is based see the painting by Angelika Kauffmann "Alexander überlässt Apelles seine Geliebte Kampaspe" from 1783 in cat. Retrospektive Angelika Kauffmann, Düsseldorf - Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, cat. no. 194, p. 352.