Description
Executed: Porcelain Manufacture Meissen
Riemerschmid was commissioned by the porcelain manufacture Meissen
to design a porcelain service in the modern style as a competitive model
to Henry van de Velde’s famous service with „Peitschenhieb“ decor.
The service comprises 15 pieces:
Coffeepot with cover, h. 20,5 cm
Sugar bowl with cover
Milk jug
Coffee cup with saucer (12)
Marks
Meissen blue sword mark underglaze, mostly knob mark
(early production) without grinding strokes (first choice)
Provenance
German art market
Public collections
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Porzellan-
sammlung im Zwinger, Bröhan Museum Berlin
Literature
Johannes Just, Meissener Jugendstil Porzellan, Leipzig 1983,
pag. 140/141; „Um 1900 - Porzellan aus Berlin, Meissen und Nymphenburg“,
exhibition catalog Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf, May 9 - August 8, 1999,
pag. 110, 129; catalogue „Porzellan, Kunst und Design 1889 bis 1939,
Vom Jugendstil zum Funktionalismus“, Part II, Bröhan Museum Berlin,
1996, pag. 40/41; Richard Riemerschmid, Vom Jugendstil zum Werkbund -
Werke und Dokumente, exhibition catalogue, Munich 1982,
pag. 283, 316, 317