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Lot 30
A Meissen plate circa 1730
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,280 inc. premium
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circa 1730
Painted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with a butterfly above flowering branches enclosed by a double-line border around the well, the border with flower-heads reserved against a band of iron-red scrolling foliage, two flowering branches on the reverse, 22.4cm diam., crossed swords mark and K in underglaze-blue
Painted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with a butterfly above flowering branches enclosed by a double-line border around the well, the border with flower-heads reserved against a band of iron-red scrolling foliage, two flowering branches on the reverse, 22.4cm diam., crossed swords mark and K in underglaze-blue
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1980
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 167
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
A similar plate was sold at Sotheby's New York, The Van Slyke Collection, 26 September 1989, lot 31 and another plate with the same decoration was sold at Christie's London, 10 July 2007, lot 52.
