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Lot 71
A Meissen plate circa 1745
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,680 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Meissen plate
circa 1745
Of shaped hexagonal form moulded with six shells around the brown-edged rim, painted with a flower spray and scattered blooms, 25.8cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 21
Of shaped hexagonal form moulded with six shells around the brown-edged rim, painted with a flower spray and scattered blooms, 25.8cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed 21
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1976
Literature:
Newman 1977, I, ill. 55
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 230
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
This plate is a rare example of the later use of a model otherwise only known in the services for the Elector Clemens August of Cologne (Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 361), and the service for Heinrich Graf von Podewils (Hoffmeister 1999, II, nos. 353-357; see also lot 82).
