PORCELAIN THREE TIER CAKESTAND. MEISSEN, GERMANY, POSSIBLY SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Miscellaneus / Ceramic
Reference: ZF1465
Centerpiece. Glazed porcelain. Meissen, Germany, possibly second half of the 19th century. With markings and numbers on bases. A glazed porcelain centerpiece topped with a male figure dressed in 18th-century European style, featuring three openwork plates (the smallest at the top) arranged on a central axis decorated with simple geometric and spiraling vegetal motifs. Incised marks and numbers can be seen on the bases of the plates and the centerpiece. The blue and white decoration with those particular plant elements is a style known as "blue onion," very characteristic of Meissen porcelain, and inspired by works from China that also used these colors as early as the 17th century. Although onions were not depicted, the stylized elements present (peaches, melons, bamboo, etc.) reminded Europeans of this vegetable, hence the name. At the base of the centerpiece, the Meissen mark used between 1815 and 1924 can be seen. The base of the "largest plate" has some numbers engraved and another in blue ink; the next one shows the mark of the two crossed swords and more engraved numbers; at the base of the smallest one, the number 17 can be seen in blue ink.
· Size: 28x28x57 cms
1.200 €
