Large plate with the coat of arms of the family Ferrero
Meissen ca. 1740/41; underglaze blue swords mark; Ø 30 cm; incised mark "21" for Johann Gottlieb Geithner jun. (Miedtank Keramos 232 / 2016 p. 15 u. Rückert Keramos 151 / 1996 fig. 6 no. 17)
Meissen ca. 1740/41; underglaze blue swords mark; Ø 30 cm; incised mark "21" for Johann Gottlieb Geithner jun. (Miedtank Keramos 232 / 2016 p. 15 u. Rückert Keramos 151 / 1996 fig. 6 no. 17)
The plate is part of the service for the Savoy Grand Chancellor and Minister of State Carlo Francesco Vincenzo Ferrero (1680-1745), Marchsese d'Ormea. It marks the transition from the "Indianische Blumen" – which were standard in Meissen until the early 1740s – to the so-called "ombrierte Holzschnittblumen".
Large plates from the Ferrero service are extremely rare. Only 3 other examples are known to us: