19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILT Z4. MARK, PRESSNUMMERN 33

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A MEISSEN TOPOGRAPHICAL RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILT Z4. MARK, PRESSNUMMERN 33
Painted with the bell tower of the Zwinger in Dresden beside the Elbe, with two ladies being drawn in a coach by six white horses, with soldiers and further elegant figures, within a later Louis XV style giltwood frame (minute surface scratching)
The plaque 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) x 6 7/8 in. (17.6 cm.) excluding frame

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 84.

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Lot Essay

See Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, Boîtes en Porcelaine, Fribourg, 1985, nos. 110 & 112 for two Meissen boxes with similar views of the Zwinger which may have been inspired by engravings published in 1729 by Mattäns Daniel Poppelmann in Vorstellung und Beschreibung des Zwingergartens zu Dresden.

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