Saucer
ca. 1722 (made)
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This Meissen saucer was decorated by an independent enameller, Ignaz Preissler, ca. 1720-25. He has used only red enamel, but still manages to convey all the drama of the battle with a furious duel between two cavalrymen amid billowing gunpowder smoke.
The decorator was copying a print from a group produced by the publisher Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg, commemorating the Wars of the Spanish Succession. The prints show large-scale battles but include many encounters of this kind. They would no doubt have belonged to the patron who commissioned Preissler to decorate special items for himself or possibly as a gift for an important personage.
The decorator was copying a print from a group produced by the publisher Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg, commemorating the Wars of the Spanish Succession. The prints show large-scale battles but include many encounters of this kind. They would no doubt have belonged to the patron who commissioned Preissler to decorate special items for himself or possibly as a gift for an important personage.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | hard-paste porcelain, enamelled in red |
| Brief description | Saucer, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1722 |
| Physical description | Hard-paste porcelain saucer, finely painted in red enamels with a battle scene, the foreground with an encounter between two cavalrymen, one seen from the rear shooting his pistol, the other advancing with his sword drawn. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A line (Incised) |
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| Summary | This Meissen saucer was decorated by an independent enameller, Ignaz Preissler, ca. 1720-25. He has used only red enamel, but still manages to convey all the drama of the battle with a furious duel between two cavalrymen amid billowing gunpowder smoke. The decorator was copying a print from a group produced by the publisher Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg, commemorating the Wars of the Spanish Succession. The prints show large-scale battles but include many encounters of this kind. They would no doubt have belonged to the patron who commissioned Preissler to decorate special items for himself or possibly as a gift for an important personage. |
| Bibliographic reference | Cassidy-Geiger, Maureen Repraesentatio Belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico….' A Tea Service and Garniture by the Schwarzlot Decorator Ignaz Preissler, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal 24, 1989 pp. 239-254 |
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| Accession number | C.117-1930 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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