A Höchst faience platter with "fleurs des indes"

A Höchst faience platter with "fleurs des indes"

Scalloped oval platter painted with a bouquet and a moth. Unmarked. A minor glaze chip to the rim. D 30.7 cm.
C. 1746 - 50.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1974 from Fischer-Böhler in Munich.

Literature

The decor probably based on works by Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck (cf.: Pietsch (ed.), Phantastische Welten. Malerei auf Meissener Porzellan und deutschen Fayencen von Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck 1714 - 1754, no. 152 ff.)
Cf. Bastian, Strasbourg. Faiences et porcelaines 1721 - 1784, vol. 2, Strasbourg 2002, illus. 222.