CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

细节

A Meissen shaped oval documentary Hausmalerei dish
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark
Of 'Swan Service' type, the broad border richly moulded with a continuous aquatic scene of tritons, mermaids, swans, fish, lobsters and shells within a gilt line, the centre painted and stippled by Franz Ferdinand Mayer with Venus reclining on her bed below rich drapery in a landscape, attended by winged putti, one emptying a quiver of money into a casket on a table with a sgraffito inscription Fr. Maÿer Pinxit, two female attendants gossip nearby and Cupid hovers above (broken through and repaired with some small losses along breaks)
143/8 in. (36.5 cm.) wide

注意事项

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拍场告示

Please note that the illustration is incorrectly labelled as lot 439

拍品专文

This dish would appear to be an unrecorded signed piece by Mayer. According to W.B. Honey, there are four other known signed pieces by Mayer; one in the V&A Museum, London (a plaque painted with portraits of his family, signed and dated 1752); two bowls in the Stuttgart Landesgewerbemuseum (one dated 1766 and signed Franc Mayr Civis et Pictor in Bresnitz, the other Mayer P:); and one of a pair of plates (inscribed F. Mayer Cath. inv. et pinxit Ano 1747) in a collection in Moscow.