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Lot 23

A Meissen leaf-shaped dish
circa 1740

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen leaf-shaped dish

circa 1740
Painted in Kakiemon style with a red squirrel above banded hedges with indianische Blumen and another yellow squirrel, brown-edged rim, 24.1cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 26

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1977

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 117

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

A Meissen price list of 1731 refers to such dishes as 'ovale platte Muscheln zum Confect in Form eines doppelten Blattes' (an oval dish shell for confectionary in the form of a double leaf) (quoted by Hoffmeister loc. cit.).

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