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Lot 71

A Meissen plate
circa 1745

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

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A 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

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).

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