A Meissen plate circa 1740
Lot 58
A Meissen plate
circa 1740
Sold for £ 4,800 (US$ 6,705) inc. premium

Lot Details
A Meissen plate circa 1740
A Meissen plate
circa 1740
Painted with a large Kauffahrtei scene in the manner of C.F. Herold depicting merchants and their wares by a quayside, within a brown-edged gilt trellis and foliate scrollwork cartouche, with four similar cartouches around the gilt-edged rim divided by gilt scrollwork borders, further painted with scattered Holzschnittblumen, insects and a butterfly, 23.6cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    Acquired in 1984

    Literature:
    Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 89

    Exhibited:
    Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
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