20th century

Underglaze painting.

1x Pheasant, BING & GRÖNDAHL, model no. 2389, designed around 1920 by Svend Olfert Neumann Jespersen (1895-1985) (H 20.5 cm). / 1x partridge group, ROSENTHAL, model no. B 916, design around 1936 by Hugo Meisel (1887-1966), marked (h 18.5 cm). / 1x duck, ROYAL COPENHAGEN, 1 grind, model no. 933 (h 7 cm).

Hugo Meisel: 1903-1905 attended the drawing and modeling school in Lichte, worked in a Berlin sculptor's studio, 1909 modeller at the Aeltesten Volkstedter porcelain manufactory, 1918-1920 attended the Kunstgewerbeschule München, from 1920 worked again at the Aeltesten Volkstedter, freelancer for the Rosenthal porcelain manufactory from 1936-1945 Svend O. N. Jespersen: Trained at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1914 and 1920.

Literature : Catalog: Auf der Pirsch - Jagdbare Tiere in Porzellan, Porzellanikon (vol. 117), Hohenberg a.d. Eger 2015, p. 61/cat. no. 63.

Provenance : German private collection.