Lot 754 | Meissen | LARGE OVAL PORCELAIN PLATTER WITH WATTEAU SCENE AND FLOWER PAINTING

LARGE OVAL PORCELAIN PLATTER WITH WATTEAU SCENE AND FLOWER PAINTING.

Meissen.
Date: 18th c.
Technique: Porcelain, painted in colours and gold.
Description: The form is foiled with two handles and decorative Rocaille. On the border contoured
flowers adn in the centre large bouquets in finest painting. On the slightly raised edges
of the platter four gold-contoured cartouches with seasonal Watteau paintings.
Measurement: 38x28,5x8cm.
Mark: Swords mark, painted blue under the glaze. Indistinct signature 'N i :4', potter's number 35 and painter's number 10.


Provenance:
- Private collection Cologne.

Literature:
- Eikelmann, Renate/Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloß Lustheim, Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Munich 2004. One bowl with comparable decorative figures ill. 108, p. 283.
- Bastian, Jaques, Strasbourg Faiences et porcelaines, 1721- 1784, Strasbourg 2002, one platter with similar decorative cartouches and painted in graduated colours, ill. 79, p. 108.
- Brattig, Patricia, Meissen Barockes Porzellan, Cologne 2010. One platter with handles with similar decorative flowers, ill. 249, p. 419.