Painted on the front with a view of the town of Meissen and the Albrechtsburg, the reverse with a view of the Elbe river, each within a gilt quatrelobe cartouche embellished with B?ttger lustre and iron-red scrollwork, the sides with indianische Blumen, the interior with a similar cartouche painted in the manner of J.E. Stadler with a chinoiserie scene depicting two figures beneath a parasol in a garden, the rim with a gilt scroll- and strapwork border, 16.7cm diam., gilt numeral 46. (cracked across, some wear to gilt border)
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Provenance:Margarete Oppenheim Collection, Berlin, sold Julius B?hler, Munich Munich, 18-22 May 1936, lot 797 (part); where purchased bySlg. B. [Otto Blohm], Hamburg, sold by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 18-19 November 1938, lot 559 (part);Herbert Wolfe Collection, sold at Bonhams, 17 June 1998, lot 38The view of Meissen is probably based on the engraving by Johann Alexander Thiele published in 1726, illustrated by C. Bodinek, Raffinesse im Akkord, II (2018), no. 320.Sold by agreement between the vendor and the Executor of the Estate of the late Margarete Oppenheim.This bowl shows a very rare view of the Albrechtsburg in Meissen, seen from the Elbe river. This late-Gothic castle complex was built between 1471 and 1524 by the ancestors of Augustus the strong as a new administrative and residential palace, the fist of its kind in German architectural history. The Palace was never used as such, and it remained largely unused until Augustus the Strong re-purposed the building to house the Meissen porcelain manufactory in 1710. Meissen porcelain was produced here until 1863.