Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
Style: Silver, Furniture, Ceramics
A LARGE MEISSEN BACCHANAL CENTERPIECE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Lot Closed
April 22, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LARGE MEISSEN BACCHANAL CENTERPIECE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
after the models by J. J. Kändler, formed of a central ionic columnar section supporting a pierced basket, with the drunken Silenus on a donkey and a satyr, flanked by five separate figural elements of young satyrs and a nymph on rockwork, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised A. 96, various impressed numerals, three pieces with incised I, 3 and IIII respectively, on a later gilt-wood base
overall height 25⅛ in.
64 cm
The supported central basket model appears to derive from the lemon basket that was included in the service ordered in 1761 by King Frederick II the Great of Prussia. The service came to be known as the Möllendorff service, named so after the General to whom Frederick is said to have subsequently gifted it. A surviving example is part of a selection of pieces from the service now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, mus. no. C.248-1921. Entries which appear to reference elements of the present centerpiece model appear in Kändler's Taxa or work records for January 1766, reproduced in Ulrich Pietsch, Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706-1775, 2002, Leipzig, p. 153.