A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'MERIAN' SAUCER DISHES, finely enamelled, gilt and painted in underglaze-blue after a design by the Swiss botanist Maria Sybilla Meriam, the centre with exotic flowers with two caterpillars and a butterfly, interlinked feathery roundels with flower-head encircling below the brown-edged rim, circa 1735
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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'MERIAN' SAUCER DISHES, finely enamelled, gilt and painted in underglaze-blue after a design by the Swiss botanist Maria Sybilla Meriam, the centre with exotic flowers with two caterpillars and a butterfly, interlinked feathery roundels with flower-head encircling below the brown-edged rim, circa 1735
15.2cm. diam. (2)
Lot Essay
cf. Howard and Ayers p.304, pl.298
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