Old rich yellow lion

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Plate with the decoration yellow lion , relief Neu-Brandenstein

The Old Reicher Yellow Lion (or yellow lion for short ) is an Indian decor in colorful on-glaze painting on Meissen porcelain , which was designed based on an East Asian model. It was used to decorate the first dinner service made for the Saxon court in 1728. The historical name of the decor is misleading because the yellow lion as one of the main motifs is actually a yellow, black-striped tiger that sneaks around a broken blue bamboo trunk. The bamboo shoots, arching up next to the large bamboo, bear leaf rosettes in similar Japanese decors, which in the Meissen decor turn into ray flowers. Individual flower and leaf groups indicate soil vegetation.

literature

  • Otto Walcha : Meissen porcelain. From the beginning to the present . Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1986, 8th edition, ISBN 3-364-00012-3 .
  • Günther Sterba: Utility porcelain from Meissen . Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1988, ISBN 3-361-00193-5 .
  • Hans Sonntag: The Dragon's Message . Leipzig: EA Seemann, 1993, ISBN 3-363-00598-9 .