Beschreibung:

A Meissen Chinoiserie small Circular Dish or Stand, Circa 1723-24
finely painted, perhaps by J. G. Höroldt, with a scene after Martin Engelbrecht depicting a ruler seated on a throne beneath Böttger lustred drapery and flanked by a guard and fan bearer, to his side a figure leaning against a table with a parrot perched on his hand, within a rectangular cartouche reserving panels of Böttger lustre edged in gilt-scrollwork, issuing shadowed iron-red scrollwork, the gilt-edged rim enriched by gilt-scrolls, the underside with two iron-red flowering branches, incised Dreher's mark X to inside edge of footrim
diameter 6 3/4 in., 17.2 cmCondition reportIn good appearance.A hairline crack to rim, located at 11 o'clock, measuring approximately 5 cm. An old flat shallow chip to underside edge of rim, measuring approximately 1cm x 0.2 cm.Some minor scattered typical surface scratching.
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Two early silver-mounted tankards painted with variations of this scene were in the historic Collection of Margarethe and Dr. Franz Oppenheimer, Berlin & Vienna. Both were acquired by Fritz Mannheimer between 1936-1939, and were later sold in his sale at Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, October 14-21, 1952, lots 312-313. The former later entered the Dr. Marcel Nyffeler Collection, Zürich, and is now in the Carabelli Collection, illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meißener Porzellan Sammlung Carabelli, 2000, pp. 132-133, no. 55. The latter was subsequently acquired by Ralph Wark, and is now part of the Stout Collection, Memphis. A third tankard was sold at Bonhams London, 2 July 2019, lot 16. Of the three tankards, the scene on the Stout example bears closest resemblance to the present lot, and both appear to use the Engelbrecht print as a source, rather than the drawing included in the Schulz-Codex. See Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, 'Graphic Sources for Meissen Porcelain: Origins of the Print Collection in the Meissen Archives', Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 31, 1996, pp. 103-104.
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.