It kind of looked a bit like a fairground prize to me, but its become more interesting to me all of a sudden because ive seen a catalogue entry for it just here. And this catalogue entry is from a sale called the paul lichter collection. Now, i want you to tell me why its so special. Uh, because it was elviss original hound dog and i simply adore elvis and always have done. It was in graceland for 25 years which is his home. So thats why its so special. It is, yes. Now, let me quickly have a look again. It says, Elvis Presleys r. C. A. nipper dog from the california concert tour, 1957. Now, there was something quite interesting happened on the tour wasnt there . With this dog. With this dog. He came onstage with this dog. Your dogs molting on me. I know. Hes very old, like me. As long as he doesnt get too much white hair on my suit. Thats all right. Elvis came onstage with this dog, didnt he . And he was accused of performing a lewd act. Rolling around on the floor with him. And i beli
The lady whipped out of her bag this rather wonky white plate. Looks very unpromising but when you turn it around, and you see the painting on the plate, you realize this is very special. Now, the first thing is, this was probably decorated not at meissen. It was made at meissen and then almost certainly it was decorated outside. It is an exquisitely painted image. The quality that comes out of meissen is princely. There was something very specific about the color scheme of this plate. If you look closely at it, heres red, black and green. And this is a scheme we associate with one particular painter. And i told her this was almost certainly from the workshops of a man called meyer, who painted in the town of presnitz. Its almost an extraordinary conundrum that in the first phases of a new art within a few years it reaches the height that it never reaches in decades or even centuries afterwards. So were looking at pcelain painting, already by 1725, as good as it will ever get. There is