拍品 180
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A PAIR OF VIENNA PLATES from the service intended for King George IV, the pale-brown borders painted with three sprays of luxuriant garden flowers overspilling into the centres between circular pale-purple-ground medallions painted in white and shaded in pale-grey with a clover-leaf, a rose and a thistle, the wells with broad chased gilt bands and the rims with gilt lines, blue beehive marks, painter's numerals 54 to one and 138. and 154. to the other, impressed numerals 13 to one and date codes for 1821 and 1822

细节
A PAIR OF VIENNA PLATES from the service intended for King George IV, the pale-brown borders painted with three sprays of luxuriant garden flowers overspilling into the centres between circular pale-purple-ground medallions painted in white and shaded in pale-grey with a clover-leaf, a rose and a thistle, the wells with broad chased gilt bands and the rims with gilt lines, blue beehive marks, painter's numerals 54 to one and 138. and 154. to the other, impressed numerals 13 to one and date codes for 1821 and 1822
24cm. diam. (2)

拍品专文

This service was ordered by the Austrian Court as a present for King George IV of England on the occasion of his visit to the Vienna porcelain factory, made between 1821 and 1824 it consisted of 316 pieces. As George IV prefered several cases of Tokaya wine instead, the service was never presented to him. It was sent to Thailand and Japan with the East Asia expedition, where it was sold separately. A tureen and cover was Exhibited in the 'Biedermeier in Oesterreich", Vienna 1963 exhibition, see the exhibition catalogue, Wilhelm Mrazek, Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, no. 704; see also Sotheby's, 17 March 1987, lot 304 for a tureen and cover