Porcelain, polychrome overglaze painting, parcel-gilt
Meissen, early 20th century
Porcelain Manufacture Meissen, est. in 1710
37x underglazed blue crossed swords marks with partial painter’s numbers, modeler's numbers and different incised marks
Form: Neuer Ausschnitt
Decor: Scattered Flowers
Coffee and dining service, comprising 39 pieces
Dimensions of the serving plate (oval): 35.3 x 48.8 cm, diameter of the serving plate (circular): 35.3 cm, height of the coffee pot: 20.3 cm
Good condition

The coffee service consists of the following pieces:

1 coffee pot

6 coffee cups with saucers

6 confection bowls

The table service comprises following pieces:

1 serving platter (oval)

1 serving platter (circular)

1 serving bowl

2 sauce boats

3 soup plates

6 breakfast plates

9 dessert plates

3 bread plates

Condition:

The service is in a good condition with usual traces of age and wear. Four pieces of the service are marked with two grinding lines each. Small chips are on the mouth of the pot. The foot rim of the pot as well as one side of the lid with visible old restorations, the flower knob shows a hair line crack. Two saucers showing a chip on the foot rim each. On the inner side of one confection bowl is a hair crack. The circular serving plate has a minimal hair crack on the rim and an old restoration below. One breakfast plate shows a scratch on the rim and with an old restoration on the foot rim. The dimensions of the oval serving plate are 35.3 x 48.8 cm. The diameter of the circular serving plate measures 35.3 cm. The height of the pot is 20.3 cm.

Porcelain Manufactory Meissen

Porcelain has been known in Europe since the 13th century, but always had to be imported from China. Thus it was mostly of lower quality – the Chinese rarely gave their best ware to the foreigners – and extremely expensive. As demand for porcelain became greater, European alchemists tried to discover the formula to create hard-paste porcelain. The production of the first European hard-paste porcelain was the result of a collaboration between the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger and the scientist Ehrenfried Walther Graf von Tschirnhaus at the court of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, in Dresden. As a matter of fact, it was finally achieved for the first time in Europe in 1708 to produce a white hard paste porcelain and in 1710 Augustus established Europe’s first hard-paste porcelain factory in the Albrechtsburg, a palace in Meissen. The so-called ‘Böttgerporzellan’ actually had more of a stoneware quality and it was not until the year 1713 that white porcelain was available for purchase. Initially unmarked, the motif of the ‘crossed swords’ was developed in the early 1720s and used from 1723 onwards. Since then, beautifully modelled and painted figures and table services were produced at Meissen, establishing its reputation as the pre-eminent porcelain factory in Europe. Outstanding potters, modelers and painters, e.g. Johann Joachim Kändler (1706-1775), Johann Gottlieb Klinger (1701-1781) and Count Camillo Marcolini (1739-1814), were employed at the factory, which dominated the 18th century style of porcelain, and Meissen wares and figurines were imitated by craftsmen at other porcelain factories throughout Europe. Meissen celebrated its 300 years of existence in 2008. Until today, Meissen porcelain is known for highest quality and originality and greatly appreciated. (ala)

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