A Du Paquier Hausmaler plate painted by Ignaz Bottengruber, circa 1728
Painted by Ignaz Bottengruber, Breslau, with an allegory of the month of March, depicting four children in winter clothes by a sled standing on elaborate gilt-edged iron-red strap- and scrollwork embellished with foliage, with two dogs below and a burning brazier and a putto supporting an oval medallion with the zodiac sign for Aries above, 23cm diam. (some wear)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 13 March 1989, lot 125

Literature:
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger,'The Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber', The Metropolitan Museum journal 33, 1998, p.254, fig. 34

Two other plates from the series of months/zodiac signs are recorded: in the Darmstädter Collection, Berlin, sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 24-26 March 1925, lot 408; and in the Margarete Oppenheim Collection, Berlin, sold by Julius Böhler, Munich, 18-20 May 1936, lot 933.

There is scattered wear overall to the gilding and enamel decoration (see catalogue illustration), as well scattered tiny scratches to the glaze surface (mostly in the well, and mostly visible in raking light though a few in the centre are slightly discoloured).
Otherwise in good condition.