CIRCA 1740, THE GILDING AND ENAMEL DECORATION LATER, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARK, BLUE MO" (?) MARK, PRESSNUMMER 39

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A MEISSEN IMARI PLATE
CIRCA 1740, THE GILDING AND ENAMEL DECORATION LATER, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARK, BLUE Mo" (?) MARK, PRESSNUMMER 39
The centre painted in underglaze blue with a stylised flowerhead enriched in gilding, the well painted in enamels with trailing indianische Blumen, the trellis-pattern border with flowerheads and reserved with panels of insects
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Kathy Gillmeister Collection, California, no. G125

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Lot Essay

For a blue and white stand decorated with a related pattern, see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (London, 2008), p. 479, no. 217, and for a stand decorated in coloured enamels with a related pattern, see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), no. 528.

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