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Lot 75

A Meissen plate, circa 1730-35

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen plate, circa 1730-35

Painted in famille verte style with a bonsai tree surrounded by small rocks and mushrooms in a colourful flower pot, a gilt and iron-red stylised foliate border around the edge of the well, the brown-edged rim with four flowering branches, 23cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, Dreher's mark probably for Johann Christoph Pietzsch

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Based on a Chinese "Famille verte" pattern that was first copied at Meissen around 1730 for the French dealer, Lemaire (see J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbilden, vol. II (2013), cat. no. 324, for an example with blue enamel crossed swords mark made for Lemaire). Another is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (illustrated, together with the Chinese original, by M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), p. 522f).

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