Octagonal dish from the Christie-Miller service
Meissen Manufactory
(Germany)
about 1738–41
Object PlaceMeissen, Germany
Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain with colored enamel and luster decoration, gilding
DimensionsDiameter: 40 cm (15 3/4 in.)
Credit LineKiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection. Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger, Frank B. Bemis Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, and Frederick L. Jack Fund
Accession number2000.823
On View
On viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
The Christie-Miller Service, named for the English family that purchased it in 1840, is decorated with views of Italian and German castles, harbors, and landscapes, both real and imaginary, and based on engravings published in 1681 and 1682 by the Augsburg printmaker Melchior Küssel.
Provenance1840s, possibly sold by a French noble family to Samuel Christie-Miller (b. 1811 – d. 1889), London [see note 1]; by descent within the family; July 7, 1970, estate of Samuel Christie-Miller sale, Sotheby & Co., London, lot 43, to The Antique Porcelain Company for Edward M. Pflueger (b. 1905 - d. 1997) and Kiyi Powers Pflueger (b. 1915 - d. 2008), New York; 2000, bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 20, 2000)
NOTES:
[1] In “Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts ca. 1710-63” (New Haven, 2007), Maureen Cassidy-Geiger suggests that the Miller-Christie service may have been acquired by the Christie-Millers directly or indirectly from a French noble family.
NOTES:
[1] In “Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts ca. 1710-63” (New Haven, 2007), Maureen Cassidy-Geiger suggests that the Miller-Christie service may have been acquired by the Christie-Millers directly or indirectly from a French noble family.
