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Lot 58

A Meissen plate
circa 1740

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

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A Meissen plate

circa 1740
Painted with a large Kauffahrtei scene in the manner of C.F. Herold depicting merchants and their wares by a quayside, within a brown-edged gilt trellis and foliate scrollwork cartouche, with four similar cartouches around the gilt-edged rim divided by gilt scrollwork borders, further painted with scattered Holzschnittblumen, insects and a butterfly, 23.6cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1984

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 89

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

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