Lot no. 854
Große Kanne mit Schneeballenrelief
Porzellan, Aufglasurfarben, polierte Vergoldung. Zweiteilig gebrannt, verschraubt und verkittet. Durchgängig belegt mit Blütenrelief und plastischen Ballen, darauf Kletterranken, belebt mit exotischen und heimischen Vögeln, ein Pirol, ein Bluthänfling und ein Kakadu mit Fantasiebemalung. Die Henkel als Schilf- und Rankenbündel gestaltet, die Lippenränder und Standringe breit vergoldet. Blaumarke Schwerter, Malerzeichen, Pressnummern 59 und 320. Kleine Chips und Restaurierungen an Blättern und Vögeln. H 61,9 cm.
Meißen, spätes 19. Jahrhundert, basierend auf Modellen von Johann Joachim Kaendler.
Inspiriert durch ostasiatische Vorbilder entwickelte Johann Joachim Kaendler die Auflage mit plastischen Schneeballenblüten um 1739. Seitdem wurde der Dekortypus für alle möglichen Porzellanobjekte verwendet, häufig zusammen mit Ranken, die durch Vögel und Insekten belebt sind. Die anbossierten Vögel basierten auf Modellen, die Kaendler vorher als Einzelfiguren auf Baumstümpfen konzipiert hatte.
Die Form der Kanne hat Kaendler ursprünglich für die Elementenvase "Wasser" verwendet. Vermutlich nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg entstand - vielleicht auf preußische Nachfrage - das Modell mit dem Blütenrelief.
Literatur
Ein gleiche weiße Kanne in: Festschrift der königlich Sächsischen Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen 1910, S. 57.
S.a. Kaendlers Arbeitsberichte, vor allem Mai 1739 (bei Pitsch, Leipzig 2002, S. 62).
A Meissen porcelain ewer with snowball decor
A monumental pitcher. Fired in two pieces, screw-mounted and cemented together. Encrusted throughout with white snowball flowers and protruding umbels. Entwined with trailing vines populated by a myriad of lively exotic and continental birds. The golden orioles, goldfinches, and linnets with naturalistic plumage, the cockatoos with fancifully coloured decor. The handle fashioned as a ribbon-tied bundle of reeds and vines, the rim and base gilt. Blue crossed swords mark, painter's marks, impressed nos. 59 and 320. Minor chips and restorations to the leaves and birds. H 61.9 cm.
Late 19th C., based on a model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
Inspired by Asian porcelain designs, Johann Joachim Kaendler developed the "snowball" flower decor for Meissen around 1739. It was used since then as surface decoration for all manner of porcelain vessels, often enlivened with tendrils populated by insects and birds. The birds were frequently based on models previously designed by Kaendler as single figures perching on stumps. Kaendler designed the model of these ewers in the 1730s, and the form without the snowball flowers was used to great effect to represent "water" in a series of allegorical vases depicting the four elements. The form with the snowballs was probably developed after the Seven Years' War - possibly for a Prussian order.
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Ceramics, pottery and earthenware
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