A rare Meissen porcelain plate 'Childhood and Spring'

A rare Meissen porcelain plate 'Childhood and Spring'

Depicting a lady in Classical attire sitting with two children. Blue crossed swords mark with pronounced pommels, dreher's number 9. Minor scratches to the centre. D 22.6 cm.
Circa 1880, decor attributed to Julius Konrad Hentschel Sen.

"The technique of slip painting was first exhibited by the French porcelain manufactory Sèvres at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Meissen was first able to realise this technique in 1878 with the help of the chemist Julius Heintze.
The design of this plate is based on a relief tondo from the “ages of man” series by the Danish sculptor Berthel Thorvaldsen (1770 – 1844), which he produced as a plaster model in 1836 and later sculpted in marble."

Provenance

Collection of Renate and Tono Dreßen.

Literature

"Illustrated in cat. Blütenlese, Berlin-Munich 2018, no. 146.
The marble relief by Berthel Thorvaldsen housed in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, inv. no. PI 3184.
The Porzellansammlung des SKD houses an identical relief in Copenhagen biscuit porcelain (inv. no. 27731)."