A Meissen porcelain dish with a red dragon and K.H.K mark
A Meissen porcelain dish with a red dragon and K.H.K mark
The well painted with two fenghuang birds forming a circle. The rim with two large golden scaled dragons and Chinese knots with coins and scrolls. Some small insects painted over firing flaws. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 20, owner's mark K.H.K. in purple and inventory no. I.C. 95 in red varnish. Wear to the glaze and scratches to the well. D 28.9 cm.
Circa 1740.
Work on the Dresden court service with the red dragon ordered by King Augustus III began in early November 1734. Deliveries to the royal confectioners are recorded until 1739. In 1751, 228 plates and 461 dishes in five different sizes are listed as still in existence, which gives us an idea of the dimensions of this service. Julia Weber mentions the eldest inventory of the Dresden court kitchens as containing "18 (pieces) small compote dishes". The red number was added to this piece during the course of this inventory, which Prince Elector Friedrich Augustus III commissioned Oberküchenmeister Christoph Wilhelm von Kessel to carry out on 10th December 1764.
The first large assortment of porcelain from the royal collections (now the Saxon State Collections Dresden) was sold in Berlin by Lepke auction house in October 1920. It is conceivable that this dish was sold there and later found its way onto the art market.
Provenance
Royal Court Kitchens, Dresden.
Literature
An identical example in the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider, today in Lustheim palace (in: Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. 243).
Cf. cat.: Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 236 ff., p. 276.
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A Meissen porcelain dish with a red dragon and K.H.K mark
The well painted with two fenghuang birds forming a circle. The rim with two large golden scaled dragons and Chinese knots with coins and scrolls. Some small insects painted over firing flaws. Blue crossed swords mark, dreher's number 20, owner's mark K.H.K. in purple and inventory no. I.C. 95 in red varnish. Wear to the glaze and scratches to the well. D 28.9 cm.
Circa 1740.
Work on the Dresden court service with the red dragon ordered by King Augustus III began in early November 1734. Deliveries to the royal confectioners are recorded until 1739. In 1751, 228 plates and 461 dishes in five different sizes are listed as still in existence, which gives us an idea of the dimensions of this service. Julia Weber mentions the eldest inventory of the Dresden court kitchens as containing "18 (pieces) small compote dishes". The red number was added to this piece during the course of this inventory, which Prince Elector Friedrich Augustus III commissioned Oberküchenmeister Christoph Wilhelm von Kessel to carry out on 10th December 1764.
The first large assortment of porcelain from the royal collections (now the Saxon State Collections Dresden) was sold in Berlin by Lepke auction house in October 1920. It is conceivable that this dish was sold there and later found its way onto the art market.
Provenance
Royal Court Kitchens, Dresden.
Literature
An identical example in the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider, today in Lustheim palace (in: Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. 243).
Cf. cat.: Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 236 ff., p. 276.
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