Twelve rare Meissen porcelain plates from a service with gold "Zwiebelmuster"
Fully decorated with underglaze blue onion motifs painted over in gold. Blue crossed swords mark with curved guards, nine plates incised with former's mark XII of Johann Christoph Pietzsch sen., 11 with III in underglaze blue to the basal ring. One plate with circular firing flaws to the underside, wear to the gilding, two plates with small cracks.
Around 1733/35, decor Augsburg, workshop of Abraham and Bartholomäus Seuter, around 1740.
This rare large set of plates probably originates from a service made for Seehof Palace in Memmelsdorf, which was commissioned by the Prince Bishop of Bamberg, Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim (1674 - 1746) or his successor Johann Philipp Anton von und zu Frankenstein (1695 - 1753). However, there is no unequivocal evidence of this in the archives of the palace (according to a statement kindly provided by Dr. Karnatz, the responsible officer of the Bavarian Palace Department). The attribution therefore remains tentative to this day.
Provenance
From the property of a South German aristocrat.
Literature
One of the 12 plates illus. in Hell/Miedtank, Zwiebelmuster. Von den Anfängen bis heute, Dresden 2018, cat. no. 30.
A tureen from this service in Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 bis um 1750, vol. I, Braunschweig 1971, illus. 338, p. 251.