A Ludwigsburg zodiac plate "Libra" - image-1

Lot 1410 Dα

A Ludwigsburg zodiac plate "Libra"

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 10:00 - Decorative Arts - Silver, Porcelain, Faience
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 2.268 € (incl. premium)

A Ludwigsburg zodiac plate "Libra"

"Frühozier" model, painted with a bearded man in a black hat and cloak carrying a set of scales above a purple cartouche bearing the zodiac symbol. Blue conjoined double-C mark with crown. With a restored Y-shaped crack. D 25 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 Scorpio plate in Jansen/Brattig, Glanz des Rokoko. Ludwigsburger Porzellan aus der Sammlung Jansen, Stuttgart-Cologne 2008, cat. no. 110.