BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S / TO THE FOOTRIM, PRESSNUMMER 20, 1745-1750

The present dish is from a service presented in 1746 by Stanislas Leszcynski, king of Poland, to Jean Paris de Samigny-Montmartel in celebration of his marriage to Marie Armande de Béthune. For a similar large dish from the same service, see Meissner Porzellan des 18.Jahrhunderts: Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, band II, pp. 548-549, no. 364 and pp. 664-665, no. 50.