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
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