A Vienna porcelain plate with Venus and Adonis - image-1

Lot 159 Dα

A Vienna porcelain plate with Venus and Adonis

Auction 1128 - overview Berlin
06.04.2019, 17:00 - The Twinight Collection II
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.875 € (incl. premium)

A Vienna porcelain plate with Venus and Adonis

Painted with a depiction of the mythological couple in a landscape reserved on gold ground. Blue "bindenschild" mark, red 29., year stamp 98, dreher's number 19. D 24.7 cm.
Vienna, Imperial porcelain manufactory under Konrad von Sorgenthal, fired 1798, painted by Georg Lamprecht or Anton Schaller.

Provenance

Sotheby´s Zurich, 7th December 1994, lot 185.

Literature

Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 53. Lehner-Jobst mentions, without citation, an archival notice stating that two plates with this motif were painted by Anton Schaller in 1798, upon which she bases her ascription. Neuwirth lists Georg Lamprecht under the painter's number 26.

Exhibitions

Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009