A Meissen porcelain plate with a hunting dog
"Brühl'sches Allerlei" model. Signed "Busch" lower right in the depiction. Blue crossed swords mark, pressnummer 22. With some scratches, chips to the basal ring. D 31 cm.
Around / after 1742, model by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, decor by Kanonikus August Ernst von dem Busch (1704 - 1769), presumably after a motif by Ridinger.
These rare diamond-etched decorations on porcelain are attributed to the Hildesheim canon August Ernst von dem Busch (1704 - 1769), son of a princely court counsellor, on the basis of several pieces signed and dated by him, such as this plate. Pazaurek assumed that he had learned the technique from a cleric in Antwerp. Diamond-engraved decorations were extremely popular in the Netherlands for finishing glass.
Provenance
Collection of Dr. R., Hamburg, auctioned by Lange Berlin, 7-9 April 1938, lot 958.
Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.
In a private collection in Westphalia since 1973.
Literature
For more on this artist, see Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence- und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. 2, Leipzig 1925/Reprint Stuttgart 1971, p. 407 ff, with numerous examples from the British Museum London and the von dem Busch family collection in Hildesheim.
Cf. Gielke, Meissener Porzellan des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Bestandskatalog des Grassimuseums Leipzig/Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Leipzig 2003, cat. no. 257 f.
Cf. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710 -50, New York-London 2008, cat. no. 336.
Cf. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain. The Wark Collection, London 2011, cat. no. 685 ff.