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Lot 1207 Dα

A Meissen porcelain plate from a service with mythical beasts

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.520 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain plate from a service with mythical beasts

"Alter Ausschnitt" model painted with a fanciful beast and Oriental shrubs in puce. The rim with a spiral ribbon. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 22. Minor wear, a firing fault at 6 o'clock. D 23.7 cm.
C. 1745, decor after Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck.

The plate has the same decoration as the known and published pieces with the additional coat of arms of Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen, Minister of the Electorate of Hanover. The minister received the service as a gift from the Saxon King August III in 1745. It is possible that this example and the four published plates were the first versions of the service, produced before the drawing of the coat of arms arrived.

Provenance

Private collection, Palatinate.
German private collection.

Literature

Cf. a dinner plate with the same decor in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
A further dinner plate in cat. Sammlung Hoffmeister, vol. I, Hamburg 1999, no. 188.
Two further dinner plates in Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain The Wark Collection, London 2011, nos. 223 f.
For more on the Münchhausen Service see Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 - 50, New York-London 2008, no. 204.