The coffee service (Meissen, 1810) has a tray decorated with a landscape of Tharandt, near Dresden, which depicts monastery ruins, a church, and hot baths by the lake. The fine painted gold-mesh on the rim of the tray carried out using the very tip of the brush also decorates the other pieces. The landscape – a very popular romantic motif – was published in a number of engravings and lithographs of the early 19th century, like those datable to around 1820 by Johann Friedrich Wizan (1770-1835). The two small plates and the jar with a rose in a field of gold (Ginori) were painted by D. Pilade, S. Giusti, and C. Bossi, and were purchased in 1902. The 1816 wine cooler, the vases and plates dating from the first decades of the 19th century are similar in terms of decoration and technique. They reproduce famous paintings from the Viennese Imperial collections, painted with glazes by such very famous artists of the time as: Andreas Peil, Hans Teufel, and Joseph Nigg. The latter is also the artist of Flowers, the painting on porcelain placed above the door. There are also two nursing cups (Baignol, Limoges, circa 1810) with a gold graffito decoration and rows of beads. The following coffee service in gilded and painted porcelain was made in Paris but decorated in Naples (circa 1830). The tray depicts a banquet of the gods Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, and Ganymede; the various pieces show other mythological episodes: Apollo Sauroktonos, Apollo and Marsyas, Bacchus and Ariadne, Eros and Leander, as well as scenes inspired by Pompeian painting. Another coffee service (Meissen, circa 1830) has sixteen pieces plus the tray, with a lavish floral decoration in a wide range of colors. museo stibbert
Next is a small, openwork plate with Egyptian ornamentation from 1872-1874 made by Ginori for the Khedive of Egypt, even if the piece was never delivered. It was conceived by Jaffet Torelli and its vivacious painting by Leopoldo Nincheri and Lorenzo Becheroni anticipated the Art Deco style by nearly half a century. Stibbert bought the single plate directly from the factory in 1894. With a serpent handle and jewel decorations on a green and blue background, the two amphora vases (Copeland) were purchased by Stibbert for the substantial sum of thirty pounds each. The jewel decoration – made by applying glaze droplets and fragments of porcelain to simulate pearls and colored stones – was introduced at Sèvres around 1770. The two pitchers, of rare splendor, were a tribute to the precious metal objects from Benvenuto Cellini’s time. Next are two fruit bowls (Meissen, 1780), different versions of a service made in Vienna for the Emperor of Austria in 1776. The oval-shaped baskets are adorned with ram’s heads amidst garlands and rosettes. The spectacular cake stand with three Muses (Meissen, circa 1800) in biscuit, consists of an openwork basket in gold and matte blue; it rests on a gilded circular base that is set on three small bronze balls. The figures of Thalia and the other two Muses were modeled by Johann Daniel Schöne and Christian Gottfried Juchtzer. The imposing size of the cake stand and the figures themselves make it a rare, as well as a spectacular, specimen of its typology. The insides of the two basket-shaped fruit bowls (Meissen, 1780-1800) are painted with insects and parrots: the original service was made in 1775 for the Elector of Saxony, Frederick Augustus iii and was