A Meissen plate, circa 1740
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A Meissen plate, circa 1740
With a brown-edged zig-zag rim, painted in Kakiemon style with a red squirrel above banded hedges with another yellow squirrel and flowering branches, above a brocade pattern across the lower half of the plate, 24.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 20
Estimate:
£4,000 - 6,000
€4,700 - 7,100
US$ 6,100 - 9,100

Footnotes

  • A similar plate in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, formerly in the Hermine Feist Collection, is published by Masako Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Meißener Porzellanmanufaktur (1973), ill. 34, and S. Bursche, Meissen Steinzeug und Porzellan (1980), no. 186.

Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics

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