A Du Paquier Hausmaler plate painted by Ignaz Bottengruber, circa 1728Painted 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)注脚Provenance:Anon. sale, Christie's London, 13 March 1989, lot 125Literature:Maureen Cassidy-Geiger,'The Porcelain Decoration of Ignaz Bottengruber', The Metropolitan Museum journal 33, 1998, p.254, fig. 34Two 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.