511 - Meissen Plate with Bird Painting, Golden Oriole and Bullfinch on Berry Branch, 2nd Half 20th c.

Meissen Plate with Bird Painting, Golden Oriole and Bullfinch on Berry Branch, 2nd Half 20th c. Porcelain, polychrome painted and gilt, glazed. Plate by the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen with a plain rim and a narrow gold edge. In the well a golden oriole and a bullfinch, painted naturalistically on a berry-bearing branch: above the oriole in brilliant yellow with black wings and a black tail and an open red beak, below it the bullfinch with an orange-red breast, a black cap, a grey back and a black wing with a white bar; the berries dark violet, the foliage in fresh green. On the base the underglaze blue crossed swords without cancellation strokes and a six-figure pattern number in gold. A hanger is glued to the reverse. First quality. Good condition. D. 25.5 cm. Naturalistically painted birds have belonged to the Meissen repertoire since the Hoeroldt period in the second quarter of the 18th c.; Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt introduced them together with the German flowers and European landscapes. The pattern numbers of this group begin with 26, for instance 260210 for bird painting and 260110 for the bird Blaukelchen. The manufactory has issued six-figure pattern numbers since the 1970s.