Search Request | Object report

Blue-Grounded Pot and Cover, so-called Ginger Jar

Lost Art-ID
229051
Aktuelle Archivnummer des historischen Negativs:
SKD, Archiv der Porzellansammlung, Negativnummer: GN_B_107
Aktuelle Archivnummer des historischen Negativs:
SKD, Archiv der Porzellansammlung, Negativnummer: GN_B_106
Artist
Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen
Title
Blue-Grounded Pot and Cover, so-called Ginger Jar
Dating
1730 (um)
Object type
Vessel
Group of reported objects
Crafts and other folk arts
Material / Technique
Ceramics (Porcelain) ; Overglaze enamel ; Metal paint gold
Height
38.00 cm
Diameter
25.00 cm
Inventory number
Hausmarschallamtsnummer: III 322
Description

Shape:

Footless, oval pot, so-called ginger jar, with horizontal shoulder and short neck; flat cover without knob.

Décor:

Four ogival fields on blue ground, painted in famille verte style; finely painted golden tendrils and rosettes of flowers on the ground of the outside and the cover; the cartouche of the front shows a bizarrely shaped, stylised rock, surrounded by gnarled branches bearing magnificent flowers; the rock probably bears a nest-like structure on which a bird sits, a similar one looks down on the nest from a high branch; the cover bears two fan-shaped fields with flowering branches; a round beetle with slightly splayed legs is noticeable in the visible field on the right.

Manufacturer's mark: underglaze blue AR monogram

Comment:

The historical photograph shows a large fireing crack. The crack can be considered an individual characteristics.

Provenance
Dresden Castle, tower room; the collection of porcelain, together with the carpets, furnishings from the porcelain gallery and scientific material (10 boxes), was relocated to 16 different locations in a total of 1211 boxes. The relocation sites, some of which were castles and manor houses, served as refugee accommodation after 1945. As part of the collection was later offered for sale by private individuals or found in private estates, it is assumed that some of the losses were due to looting and destruction. According to the loss report for the porcelain collection from 1991, a partial transport to the Soviet Union cannot be ruled out.
Literature / Source

Originaltext der Fotokarte von 1941 | Original text of the photo card from 1941:

"118. Urnenartige Deckelvase mit napfförm. Deckel, Nachahmung der chines. Deckelvase Nr. 104, blauer Grund (es ist versucht worden, das Gespritzte nachzuahmen), ausgesparte, gebuchtete bez. gezackte Felder mit Schmelzfarbenmalerei als Nachahmung des chinesischen Vorbildes, großer Brandriß auf der Schulter, Meißner Porzellan, unterglasurkobaltblaues AR III 322. Höhe: 38 cm (mit Deckel), Durchmesser: ca. 25 cm. (Turmzimmer, vormal. Residenzschloß Dresden)"

Archivalische Nachweise | Archival records:

Gesetz über die Auseinandersetzung FS/HW 1924, Kapitel 3.1.a, S. 447 (Staat);

SächsHStA Dresden, 10701, Nr. 17, 1920, S. 416 (Gardemöbelvorrat, Vermerk: Turmzimmer).

Katalog | Catalog:

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung, Anette Loesch (Hg.): Das Porzellankabinett im Hausmannsturm des Dresdner Residenzschlosses. Dresden, 2019, Kat. 48, S. 231.

Literatur | Literature:

Walter Bondy: Kang-Hsi. Eine Blüte-Epoche der Chinesischen Porzellankunst, München 1923, Tafel vor S. 145 (dort zwei Farbabbildungen, Vase mit einer Höhe von 39 cm, Schloss), S. 58 (allgemein zum puderblauen Fond mit Fünffarben-Malerei).

Julia Weber: Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, 2 Bde., München 2013, Bd. 2, S. 327–329, S. 331–334, Kat.-Nr. 320 (Vergleichsstück).

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