Description
52. A rare Meissen plate, circa 1735
Painted with two cranes facing a flowering bush with a bird and butterfly in flight, the rim moulded with a "Sulkowski-Ozier" pattern, painted with scattered sprigs, 23.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Provenance
Sir David Ogilvy, Bt., sold Christie's London, 16 October 1972, lot 130 (part); With Delomosne;
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 11 November 1985, lot 113;
Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, sold Bonhams London, 25 November 2009, lot 45;
Formerly in the Brigitte Britzke Collection, Bad Pyrmont
Literature
D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, vol. I, 1999, no. 131
Exhibited
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Sammlung Hoffmeister, 1999-2009
The decoration is based on a Chinese "famille verte" dish in the collection of Augustus the Strong (published by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, 2013, ill. 54). Another plate with this rare decoration with a plain rim is in the Ernst Schneider Collection (Weber, cat. no. 379).
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