A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI PLATE painted in the workshop of Mayer of Pressnitz, the centre with Mars, Venus and Cupid scantily draped and seated on a bed below iron-red drapery in an arched room with a marble floor within a band of gilt foliage scrolls, the border with bouquets on a pale-pink diaper-ground within a gilt dentil rim (some rubbing and retouching to enamels), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 16, circa 1745, the decoration slightly later
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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI PLATE painted in the workshop of Mayer of Pressnitz, the centre with Mars, Venus and Cupid scantily draped and seated on a bed below iron-red drapery in an arched room with a marble floor within a band of gilt foliage scrolls, the border with bouquets on a pale-pink diaper-ground within a gilt dentil rim (some rubbing and retouching to enamels), blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 16, circa 1745, the decoration slightly later
23.5cm. diam.
Lot Essay
See Gustav Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence und Porzellan-Hausmaler, vol. II, p. 334, nos. 291 and 292 for two plates from the same service