A very rare Meissen plate from the 'Black- and Gold-Striped' service, circa 1740Superbly painted in the manner of A.F. von Löwenfinck, the centre of the well with a landscape vignette depicting a Fabeltier or fantasy animal flanked by flowers, a gold and black-striped border around the edge of the well, the brown-edged, wavy rim painted in enamels and gilding with a continuous landscape scene depicting chinoiserie figures heightened in gilding, 23.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral 16注脚Provenance:Baron L. de Zoubaloff, Moscow;Confiscated from the above by the Soviet Government in 1917 and sold at Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 18-20 October 1930, no. 858;The Collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, Sotheby's London, 25 April 1961, lot 428;Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 27 November 1979, lot 26;The Collection of Andreina Torre, Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1992, lot 182Literature:R. Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as collected by Otto Blohm (1953), colour plate 9, no. 25-gThe plate is part of a table service and matching tea and coffee service, variously dated between 1735-40, of which a large portion was until 1917 in the possession of Baron de Zoubaloff in Moscow. It has been suggested (U. Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt (1996), p. 230) that the service may have been delivered to the Russian Court. The painting on some pieces has been attributed to Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck, who left the Meissen manufactory in 1736, though the presence of impressed numerals on some pieces proves that at least some of the service must date to 1739 or later.Most of the service remains in the State Museum of Ceramics in Kuskovo Palace in Moscow and a massive charger is in the Hermitage collection in St Petersburg; see U. Pietsch, Phantastische Welten (2014), nos. 77-127. Six plates from the service in two sizes were sold by the Soviet government at auction in Berlin in 1930 (Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 21-22 October 1930, lots 858-863), of which one is now in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 182). A plate of the same, slightly smaller size from the same service was sold in these Rooms from the Hoffmeister Collection, 24 November 2010, lot 40.