A pair of Magdeburg perforated octafoil dessert-plates

CIRCA 1760

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A pair of Magdeburg perforated octafoil dessert-plates
Circa 1760
Painted in grand feu colours with bouquets of flowers, the borders pierced with trellis and moulded with foliage scrolls (one with slight firing blemish to glaze)
9½in. (23.5cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Otto Blohm, no. 908

Lot Essay

Cf. Meinz, no. 114, fig. 173. The shape is quite clearly derived from a Meissen porcelain prototype

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