CIRCA 1761-4, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK BETWEEN INCISED CI (?) AND IMPRESSED M

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A NYMPHENBURG DEEP LOBED DISH FROM THE HOF SERVICE
CIRCA 1761-4, IMPRESSED BAVARIAN SHIELD MARK BETWEEN INCISED CI (?) AND IMPRESSED M
Painted with a large loose bouquet of flowers, a moth, a butterfly, two blue beetles and scattered flower-sprays, the lobed octafoil sides with ribbed intersections at the well with pendant gilt dots suspended from a band of gilt scrolling foliage reserved with flowerheads and posies below the rim, the stepped rim with blue lines and gilt foliage scrolls divided at the intersections by blue dots (shallow chip to footrim, minute flake to enamel of one blue flower, some very slight areas of wear)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1968.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The so-called churfürstliches Hofservice was most probably decorated by Joseph Zächenberger (1732-1802), and is generally regarded as Nymphenburg's finest achievement in terms of tablewares. For an extensive discussion of the service, see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml (Stuttgart, 1997), pp. 133-139, where the catalogue cites numerous other examples and illustrates ten other pieces.

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