Live Auction 10398Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A MEISSEN TOPOGRAPHICAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
Lot 78

A MEISSEN TOPOGRAPHICAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILT Z4. MARK, PRESSNUMMERN 33

Closed2 December 2015

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A MEISSEN TOPOGRAPHICAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILT Z4. MARK, PRESSNUMMERN 33
Painted with the bell tower of the Zwinger in Dresden beside the Elbe, with two ladies being drawn in a coach by six white horses, with soldiers and further elegant figures, within a later Louis XV style giltwood frame (minute surface scratching)
The plaque 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) x 6 7/8 in. (17.6 cm.) excluding frame

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 84.

Specialist note

See Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, Fribourg, 1985, nos. 110 & 112 for two Meissen boxes with similar views of the Zwinger which may have been inspired by engravings published in 1729 by Mattäns Daniel Poppelmann in Vorstellung und Beschreibung des Zwingergartens zu Dresden.