Meissen Porcelain Gallery

A Meissen octagonal plate, circa 1740. Provenance: The property of Lord Biddulph

Decorated with ladies and gentleman before the wall of a grand house, beside a lake. With underglaze blue cross swords mark and impressed '22'

The central image is derived from a series of engravings by Melchoir Kusel for Verschieden ansichte in Italien, Carnthen und Friul published by Johann Wilhelm Bauer in Augsburg in 1679. The waste bowl of the service is dated 1740. Thought to have been purchased in Paris by William Henry Miller c1840, from a member of the Orleans family.

The service was recognised when sixty-two pieces from the Estate of Samuel Christie-Miller were sold by Sotheby's in 1970. The plate has been in the Biddulph family since the time of the 1st Baron Biddulph (1834-1923).

An extremely rare Meissen Bottger Hausmalerei teapot and cover.

Of compressed globular form painted in red monochrome with hunting scenes by Ignaz Preissler

Depicting three men and hounds in pursuit of a stag.

With gilded fluted moulding round the cover rim and foot.

Porcelain dates to c1720 and decoration slightly later.

Provenance : Christie's C. H. Fischer

Sale 13-15 May 1918

Lot 662 as Du Paquier.

A Meissen Bottger porcelain waste bowl

C.1720-26

Painted in kakiemon colours. A rare example of the earliest Meissen attempts at kakiemon.

It is rare to find Bottger porcelain and the experimental nature of this bowl is evident in the warping of the form.

Marks : Over-glaze crossed swords mark and painters mark ‘.50.’ in iron-red.

A Meissen Bottger porcelain saucer decorated by Ignaz Preissler

Depicting an ostrich hunt scene.

Circa 1720-25 - 11.4 cm diameter

The scene derives from J. van der Straet (known as Stradanus), who produced a series of designs of hunting subjects for a tapestry series of around 1568 for Cosimo de Medici.

The prints were reissued by Antonio Tempesta.