A Meissen chinoiserie plate from the Earl of Jersey service

CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Meissen chinoiserie plate from the Earl of Jersey service
Circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark
Painted in the manner of Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck with Orientals running with a banner in a landscape before pavilions and a pine tree within a border of scattered indianische Blumen and a shaped brown line rim (one rim chip at 8 o'clock, a short hairline crack at 1 o'clock, wear to enamels and gilt)
8¾in. (22cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Rückert, op. cit. (1966), pls. 228 and 229; and Ralph Henry Wark and Mary Campbell Gristina, The Wark Collection - Early Meissen Porcelain (1984), pp. 137-139, pls. 182-188.

Two plates from this service were sold by Sotheby's on 17 March 1987, lots 235 and 236 and two plates from the Anderson Collection were sold in these Rooms on 1 June 1992, lots 21 and 22.

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