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Lot 40
A Meissen plate circa 1740
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,080 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Meissen plate
circa 1740
Painted with the so-called Bienenmuster of three insects around a spray of flowers tied with a ribbon above a grassy vignette, the wavy, brown-edged rim with scattered flowers, 21.7cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 16 (very minor wear)
Painted with the so-called Bienenmuster of three insects around a spray of flowers tied with a ribbon above a grassy vignette, the wavy, brown-edged rim with scattered flowers, 21.7cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 16 (very minor wear)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. Marcel Nyffeler Collection, Zürich, sold Christie's London, 9 June 1986, lot 129;
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 145
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
