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Lot 64

A Meissen small octagonal plate from the 'Christie-Miller' service
circa 1740

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

£20,000 - £30,000

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A Meissen small octagonal plate from the 'Christie-Miller' service

circa 1740
Superbly painted with a scene of two horsemen between a tree and a building with a group of figures and buildings by a riverbank in the distance, enclosed by a gilt trellis band reserved with four quatrelobe landscape vignettes in purple monochrome, the rim with four similar polychrome scenes enclosed by a band of brown-edged gilt foliate scrollwork, 17.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 22

Footnotes

Provenance:
The late S.R. Christie-Miller, sold Sotheby's London, 7 July 1970, lot 17 (part);
With Andreina Torre, Zürich;
Acquired in 1981

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 97

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

Sixty-one pieces of this service, said to have been purchased by Samuel Christie-Miller in 1840 from a member of the Orleans family, were sold by his descendants in 1970, including only eight such plates of the small size. Other than this group, only a handful of other pieces from the service are recorded, including an octagonal dish (acquired in 1900) and an oval dish (gift of Horst Hoffmeister) in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg.

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