Painted with a pastoral scene of cows, a piper and a lady spinning in dark puce camaïeu within a gilded cartouche, flanked by flower bouquets tied with iron-red ribbons. The central scene could be adapted from one of the many etchings by Nicolaes Berchem

Nicolaes Berchem, published by Nicolaes Visscher I, 1635-1683

Vienna, Du Paquier porcelain, signed ‘H.G.v.B/1734’ for Hans Gottlieb von Bressler. The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964, Accession Number: 64.101.241a, b

A similarly decorated covered bowl, for which our plate was possible the stand, is signed with Bressler’s initials and dated 1734.

This plate is from a small set that were preserved in the possession of the Counts von Bressler (Breslau or now Wroclaw) in Schloss Lauske until at least 1925 when published by Pazaurek, the family sold the castle and Estate in 1932 and shortly afterwards pieces appeared on the market. The top plate and the covered bowl are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

[1] I am Grateful to Sebastian Kuhn for this information. The catalogue can be seen at: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lepke1936_10_07/0003/thumbs

Condition

Losses to the gilding

Provenance

The Collection of the Counts of Bressler, Schloss Lauske (until at least 1925)

Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 7 & 8 October 1936, lot 180[1]

Property from the Collection of Margot Gottlieb, sold, Sotheby’s New York, 20 October, 1994, lot 402

Antiquitäten C. Bednarczyk, Vienna

The collection of Melinda and Paul Sullivan

Literature:

Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence-und Porzellan Hausmaler, Leipzig, 1925, Vol. I, col. pl. 18.

Manners 2024
‘E & H Manners, ‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 21

Price: £16,000