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Lot 237

A Meissen Hausmaler plate, circa 1735-40

6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen Hausmaler plate, circa 1735-40

Painted by Hans Gottlieb von Bressler, the centre with a scene of two children playing on a rope hung between two trees, within a cartouche of gilt scroll- and strapwork embellished with coloured foliate scrolls, the rim with gilt panels painted with coloured fruit and flowers alternating with scroll- and strapwork, 21.4cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some wear)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale in these Rooms, 16 November 2005, lot 48

Literature:
John Sandon, Meissen Porcelain (2010), p. 30

One of a service decorated with scenes from 'Les Jeux et plaisris [sic] de l'enfance' by Jacques Stella, published in Paris in 1657; three more plates from the service, which was in the possession of the Counts von Bressler in Schloss Lauske until at least 1925, were in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 325). Another is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York (C. Le Corbeiller, German Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century (1990), p. 23).

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