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A Meissen leaf-shaped dish circa 1740
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,840 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA 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
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.).
