A Ludwigsburg zodiac plate "Virgo" - image-1

Lot 1409 Dα

A Ludwigsburg zodiac plate "Virgo"

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €

A Ludwigsburg zodiac plate "Virgo"

"Frühozier" model, painted with a girl carrying a basket of radishes above a purple cartouche bearing the zodiac symbol. Overglaze blue conjoined double-C mark with crown. Minor wear and scratches. D 25.6 cm.
Around/shortly after 1758, decor after Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel.

Provenance

Collection of Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss.

Literature

See Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century: The Pauls Collection, vol. II, London 1972.
See also Master (ed.), Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. II Meissen Höchst Frankenthal Ludwigsburg, Frankfurt 1967, p. 196 f.
The same Virgo plate or another example in Flach, Ludwigsburger Porzellan. Fayence, Steingut, Kacheln, Fliesen. Ein Handbuch, Stuttgart 1997, no. 1207.
The Scorpio plate in Jansen/Brattig, Glanz des Rokoko. Ludwigsburger Porzellan aus der Sammlung Jansen, Stuttgart-Cologne 2008, cat. no. 110.