A MEISSEN IMARI OCTAGONAL PLATE

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND PAINTER'S K FOR KRETZSCHMAR WITHIN A DOUBLE BLUE CIRCLE, PRESSNUMMER 22

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A MEISSEN IMARI OCTAGONAL PLATE
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark and painter's K for Kretzschmar within a double blue circle, Pressnummer 22
Painted in underglaze blue and enriched in the Imari palette with a vase of chrysanthemum and peony in a terrace within two concentric blue circles, the wide panelled border with phoenix, karashishi and flowerhead mon on a blue ground gilt with foliage, the reserve with trailing flowers

Lot Essay

Other plates from this service are in the Copenhagen Museum of Fine Arts, the Hans Syz Collection at The Smithsonian Institution and formerly in the Anderson Collection, sold Christie's, London, 1 June 1992, lot 30. Cf. J. Jefferson Miller, et al., Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 116.

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