"Dish With Enamels From The Famille Verte, Mark Of Auguste Le Fort - China 18th Century Kangxi Period"
Porcelain dish with Famille Verte enamels decorated with two branched birds among peonies and magnolias bearing the inventory mark of the collection of Augustus the Strong, Johanneum, Dresden. The wing is decorated with flowered cartouches of different varieties of flowers. On the back, a tripod perfume burner mark in a double circle.China 18th Century
Kangxi Period (1661-1722)
Diameter: 26.9cm
The dish bears on the reverse the incised mark of the collection of Augustus the Strong, of Saxony, N:80.
A dish with identical decoration is still preserved in the Dresden Collection, inv PO 3645, N:50
Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), king of Poland and elector of Saxony, had a particular interest in art throughout his life and particularly to porcelain, an almost obsessive interest which, in parallel with the Meissen porcelains of which Auguste the Strong collected almost every piece that had been created at the factory, led him to also collect the very essence of porcelain and that of which the Meissen porcelain was inspired to create fine porcelain, Japanese porcelain and Chinese porcelain.
Slight wear to the enamels, two very tiny hairlinnes, slight sintering on the heel.
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