saucer BM-Franks.124

Period:Unknown Production date:1700-20
Materials:porcelain (hard-paste), gold,
Technique:gilded, painted, glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:flower
Dimensions:Length: 13 centimetres Depth: 2.40 centimetres

Description:
Saucer; hard-paste porcelain; the original decoration painted in underglaze-blue with a flower in a circle in the centre and an intermediate and outer band of diaper pattern has been overpainted with gilding; the later decoration consists of a ‘circle of boors carousing’, painted in black over the glaze (after a design of Beham); inside is a wreath of flowers; marked.
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Comments:There is a similar piece in the Decorative Art Museum, Prague, inv. 18.959See: Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ‘Two pieces of porcelain decorated by Ignaz Preissler in the J. Paul Getty Museum’ The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 1987, fig 7 and p.46, 50.