square body with very finely painted colourful, floral bouquet in a glass vase standing on a marble slab, signed lower right Parmann fecit 1811, 11 x 12 cm, in original frame 22 x 23 cm, the latter slightly damaged, Vienna, Imperial Manufactory, dated 1811, turner P Georg Ebert 1783-1819 (Ru)

Very rare miniature by Leopold Parmann.

Lit. cf.: Glass and Porcelain auction, lot 843, 25.4.2007, Dorotheum Vienna; Folnesics-Braun, Vienna 1907, p. 114, p. 117 ill. tea cup, p. 120 ill. coffee cup, p. 156 ill. plaquette with colourful flowers signed L. P Leopold Parmann circa 1810;
lit.: W. Mrazek, W. Neuwirth, Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, MAK Vienna 1970, p. 44, Leopold Parmann, d. Vienna 16 September 1816, design and flower painter no. 103, between 1783 and 1816 at the Manufactory, from 1784 entrusted with particularly fine design painting, 1799 noted as one of the most skilled workers, from 31 January 1803 chief painter and director of the flower painting class as successor to Drechsler;
lit.: W. Neuwirth, Porzellanmaler-Lexikon, vol. II, 1840-1914, p. 124, in 1816, on the death of Parmann, Josef Nigg was appointed to oversee the flower painting class.
Lit.: Thieme-Becker, vol. 26, p. 248; in 1828 he produced a flower painting for the Viceroy of Egypt; his signature can be found on 2 model plaquettes, one dated 1810, held by MAK Wien, the second in a little box in the former Figdor collection in Vienna;
lit.: G. Frodl and M. Frodl, Die Blumenmalerei in Wien, 2010, p. 12, ill. plate with floral still life, 1805, by porcelain painter, Leopold Parmann; works in porcelain by him have featured in many exhibitions and auction, and were published in Alt-Wiener Porzellan, Wien 1904, Folnesics and Braun, 1907, Slg. Lanna- Prag 1909, Karl Mayer 1914, Richard Ernst 1925, Karl Mayer 1928, Slg. Auersperg 1929;