A PAIR OF MEISSEN PLATES painted by Wagner, one with a young girl taking roses from a branch, standing on a terrace in a silver-birch wood, entitled Keine Rosen ohne Dornen, the other painted with Ruth, each enclosed within a seeded gilt band tooled with lappets and flowers and within an outer band of grapevine, the borders pierced with husks enriched in pink, blue and gilding, with green and gilt rims (slight wear to seeded gilding), artist's signatures, blue crossed swords marks, black script Pressnummern 21 and 138, circa 1890