MEISSEN PORCELAIN PLATE, BY HANS GOTTLIEB VON BRESSLER

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PLATE, BY HANS GOTTLIEB VON BRESSLER

 

Circa 1735-40
21.4cm diam.
Crossed swords in underglaze-blue
Black lacquer inventory mark ‘A70’

Painted with children playing and swinging on ropes between two trees within elaborate gilt scrolls, the border with four panels of fruit and flowers.

Other plates from the series, are in the Arnhold Collection[i], (Now in the Frick Collection), New York, three in The Metropolitan Museum, New York[ii], The Gardiner Museum, Toronto and The Hans Syz Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC[iii]. Some  of the children’s games depicted on these plates follow closely designs from ‘Les Jeux et plaisirs de l’enfance by Jacques Stella, published in Paris in 1657. Some like ours are more loosely adapted. Elements of these children’s games were also introduced to the German-speaking lands through the engravings of Daniel Marot from his Second Livre d’Ornaments via Paul Decker and Jeremias Wolff.[iv]

Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l’Enfance (1657), after Jaques Stella (1636-1697), Bibliothèque Municipal de Lyon

 

Condition:
Losses tp golding and some wear, no restoration

Provenance:
Sir Jeffrey Tate and Klaus Kuhlemann
Bonhams, Important Meissen Porcelain from a Private Collection, Part I, 16 November 2005, lot 48

Literature:

Manners 2024
‘E & H Manners, ‘Decorators on Ceramics and Glass’, 2024, no. 22

References:

Cassidy-Geiger 2008
Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, (2008), no. 325

Syz, Miller & Rűckert 1979
Hans Syz with J. Jefferson Miller II and Rainer Rückert, The Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection: Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, (Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979), vol. 1 p. 514, no. 347

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[i] Cassidy-Geiger, 2008 p. 642, no. 325.

[ii] Metropolitan Museum accession no.s 1974.356.316, 1974.356.317 and 50.211.243

[iii] Syz, Miller & Rűckert 1979, p. 514, no. 347.

[iv] We are grateful to Maureen Cassidy-Geiger for pointing this out.

Price: £11,000.00