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Lot 34

A very rare Meissen plate
circa 1740

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

£12,000 - £15,000

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A very rare Meissen plate

circa 1740
Painted in Famille rose style with a table, vase, flowers and scrolls in the centre and a band of flowers against a stylised brown foliate ground, 24cm diam. crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22 (very minor flaking)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1991

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 184

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

See Hoffmeister (Literature) for other examples of this very rare 'Famille Rose' decoration. Another is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (Liackhova 2007, no. 55), and a closely similar example was in the collection of Emil Kaulla, Stuttgart (Berling 1900, fig. 43).

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