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Lot 70
A Meissen oval dish circa 1750-55
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,040 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Meissen oval dish
circa 1750-55
Moulded with the 'Dulong' pattern of rocailles enclosing palmettes, flowers and reeds around the brown-edged rim, reserved with four panels painted with birds perched on a branch, a flower spray, a goat in a landscape vignette and a butterfly and insects, the centre painted with two branches of fruit and leaves, 29.3cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 54
Moulded with the 'Dulong' pattern of rocailles enclosing palmettes, flowers and reeds around the brown-edged rim, reserved with four panels painted with birds perched on a branch, a flower spray, a goat in a landscape vignette and a butterfly and insects, the centre painted with two branches of fruit and leaves, 29.3cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 54
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 9 May 1988, lot 43
Acquired in the above sale
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 218
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
The unusual combination of vignettes around the rim also appears on a service moulded with the Gotzkowsky relief pattern, for which see Britzke 2007, p.16.
