A Sorgenthal porcelain plate in the Egyptian ...
A Sorgenthal porcelain plate in the Egyptian taste
The well decorated with a scene of Neoclassical figures around a sacrificial altar, the rim with pseudo-hieroglyphs in three trapezoid reserves alternating with symbols and letters in medallions. Bordered by a band of stylised flowerheads on brown ground. Blue bindenschild mark, year stamp 97, iron red 7. for Josef Ockawalsky, potter's no. 19. D 24.2 cm.
Vienna, Sorgenthal manufactory, fired 1797 and decorated shortly after.
** Provenance
Sotheby´s London, 7th December 1994, lot 178.
** Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009
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A Sorgenthal porcelain plate in the Egyptian taste
The well decorated with a scene of Neoclassical figures around a sacrificial altar, the rim with pseudo-hieroglyphs in three trapezoid reserves alternating with symbols and letters in medallions. Bordered by a band of stylised flowerheads on brown ground. Blue bindenschild mark, year stamp 97, iron red 7. for Josef Ockawalsky, potter's no. 19. D 24.2 cm.
Vienna, Sorgenthal manufactory, fired 1797 and decorated shortly after.
** Provenance
Sotheby´s London, 7th December 1994, lot 178.
** Exhibitions
Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009
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