A Meissen porcelain plate with red dragon decor and K.H.C. mark
Decorated in the centre with two circling fenghuang birds and around the lip with two gold-scaled dragons and Chinese knot motifs with scrolls and coins. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's mark, owner's mark K.H.C. in purple. The basal ring ground down to be circular. D 23.1 cm.
Around 1740 - 50.
Work on the Dresden court service with the Red Dragon ordered by King August III began in early November 1734. Deliveries to the Japanese Palace, the Dresden Court Confectionery and Court Kitchen are recorded from 1735 at the latest. Initially, the tableware pieces left the manufactory only with the underglaze blue sword mark, i.e. without any other owner's mark. The purple letters were only added to the repeat orders from 1739/40 onwards or after the inventory by the head kitchen master Christoph Wilhelm von Kessel on 10th December 1764. For the early pieces of the service with red dragon, only the owner's marks K.H.C. and K.H.K. for the Royal Court Confectionery and the Royal Court Kitchen are documented in the files.
Provenance
Private collection, Palatinate.
Literature
Further examples from this extensive service in Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 237 - 238.
Cf. also cat. Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 236 ff., p. 276.