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TWO MEISSEN PLATES FROM THE BAMBERG SERVICE
Circa 1735
Boldly painted in a vibrant Kakiemon palette of underglaze-blue, iron-red, yellow and turquoise with insects among meandering flowering shrubs within an iron-red and gilt border of cell-pattern reserved with flowerheads and shaped panels of trailing flowers, the undersides with trailing flowering branches, blue crossed swords marks, one with three blue dots and incised XII to footrim, the other with three blue lines to footrim and Dreher's /
8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) and 8 1/2in. (21.5cm.) diam. (2)
Circa 1735
Boldly painted in a vibrant Kakiemon palette of underglaze-blue, iron-red, yellow and turquoise with insects among meandering flowering shrubs within an iron-red and gilt border of cell-pattern reserved with flowerheads and shaped panels of trailing flowers, the undersides with trailing flowering branches, blue crossed swords marks, one with three blue dots and incised XII to footrim, the other with three blue lines to footrim and Dreher's /
8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) and 8 1/2in. (21.5cm.) diam. (2)