A PROSKAU-DIETRICHSTEIN FAIENCE 'TROMPE-L'OEUIL' FRUIT TUREEN AND COVERS, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, the almond-shape dish covered with dozens of applied leaves, florettes and branches, one very large central yellow lemon to the middle, its very large cover en suite applied with two branches and a miniature lemon, flanked to one side by a ruby-red flowerhead, to the other side by a ruby-red artichoke, its cover en suite (the artichoke cover repaired, chips, repairs to back), marked DP for the period of Johann Carl Count von Dietrichstein (1770-1783)

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A PROSKAU-DIETRICHSTEIN FAIENCE 'TROMPE-L'OEUIL' FRUIT TUREEN AND COVERS, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief, the almond-shape dish covered with dozens of applied leaves, florettes and branches, one very large central yellow lemon to the middle, its very large cover en suite applied with two branches and a miniature lemon, flanked to one side by a ruby-red flowerhead, to the other side by a ruby-red artichoke, its cover en suite (the artichoke cover repaired, chips, repairs to back), marked DP for the period of Johann Carl Count von Dietrichstein (1770-1783)
27 cm wide

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