Lot n° 21
Estimation :
1500 - 2000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 9 274EUR
18th century Meissen porcelain bowl - Lot 21
18th century Meissen porcelain bowl
Mark in blue with two crossed swords, pressnummer
Of ribbed form, with polychrome and gold decoration on two sides of hunting scenes in a landscape on a wide brown and gold rocaille console interspersed with bouquets of flowers, the upper rim of a frieze of green and gold trellis and rocaille motifs, gold fillet on the rim, bouquet of flowers inside, very minor wear
D. 18.5 cm.
Provenance:
Most likely from the hunting service commissioned by Empress Catherine II of Russia in 1766.
Notes:
The hunting service of Empress Catherine II of Russia was one of the largest services ever made by the German manufactory; it comprised about a thousand pieces and took two years to produce. Ulrich Pietsch, who studied this service, noted the collaboration of 29 painters and that the empress was so impressed that she ordered supplements from the Imperial Russian Manufactory (see Ulrich Pietsch, Meissen für die Zaren, Dresden, 2004, p.95).
Lydia Liackova has suggested that it may have been commissioned by Empress Catherine II of Russia for her lover Count Gregory Orlov, both passionate hunters, for her palace in Gatchina (Porzellan Parforce, Jagdliches Meissner Porzellan, Munich,2005, pp. 49-53, cat. n. 80-82 for two refreshers from the same service). After Orlov's death, the Empress is said to have bought the palace with all its contents, including this service, to give it to her son Pavel Petrovitsch, the future Tsar Paul I. In any case, all the pieces were transferred in 1890 to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg and in 1911 to the Hermitage Museum. About 132 pieces were sold by the Soviets in 1930 and another 124 in a sale in Berlin by Rudolphe Lepke.
For a bottle cooler, see the sale at Christie's, London, 2-3 June 2015, lot 77.
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