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Lot 29
A very rare Meissen plate circa 1725-30
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £7,200 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA very rare Meissen plate
circa 1725-30
Painted in underglaze-blue with a vignette of birds amidst foliage and flowers within concentric circles in the centre, and two large vignettes of peacocks and other birds flanked by flowers and foliage around the rim, 24.4cm diam., crossed swords and painter's mark Z in underglaze-blue, incised x inside the footrim
Painted in underglaze-blue with a vignette of birds amidst foliage and flowers within concentric circles in the centre, and two large vignettes of peacocks and other birds flanked by flowers and foliage around the rim, 24.4cm diam., crossed swords and painter's mark Z in underglaze-blue, incised x inside the footrim
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 14 June 1983, lot 82
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 296
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Another example of this very rare pattern is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (Cassidy-Geiger 2008, no. 211), where the author links the plate to the commissions for Augustus the Strong's Japanese Palace in Dresden, based upon the similarity to surviving vase garnitures, and drawings for the palace indicating that plates were intended for the cornices.
