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Porcelain plate from the ‘Green Family’ series, China, Kangx…
See original version (French)
35
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Porcelain plate from the ‘Green Family’ series, China, Kangx…
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
Porcelain plate from the ‘Green Family’ series, China, Kangxi period (1662–1722)
The central design features large peonies and their foliage rising above rocks and bamboo, around which butterflies and small insects flit. On the left, a fanciful mark within a square accompanied by a leaf. The rim is decorated with six cartouches featuring peony motifs against a background of geometric friezes, small flowers and swastikas within lozenges. On the reverse, a blue-enamelled mushroom mark set within a double circle, and the incised inventory mark ‘N: 131?’ from the collection of Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
Diameter: 36 cm
Crazing and pitting.
The mark ‘N: 131?’ ’ corresponds to the series of twelve plates decorated with the green family of flowers, some of which are also adorned with a bird, documented in the inventories of the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, inventory no. 324, 1721, Green Family, p. 830: “131. 12 pieces of round plates, with all manner of flowers painted inside, and on some a bird, 3 Z. deep and 15 Z. in diameter. ” – “131. 12 round plates, richly painted on the inside with flowers, some with a bird painted on them, 3 inches deep and 15 inches in diameter”). Two further plates from the same series, bearing the same inventory number incised beneath the base, are held in the Porzellansammlung in Dresden (PO 6929 and PO 6930). The corresponding entry in the 1779 inventory also provides details of the circumstances in which these plates were acquired for the collections of Augustus the Strong: “In the same year, in the month of July, His Royal Majesty purchased from Privy Councillor von Rechenberg: " – “In July of that same year, His Royal Majesty purchased the following items from Privy Councillor von Rechenberg”.
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