Lot 218
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A PAIR OF CHINESE IMARI PLATES decorated in iron-red, green and yellow enamels and gilt on underglaze-blue with a central peony-spray beside grass and hibiscus, the border with a band of four flower-clusters, the reverse with a continuous band of scrolling flower-sprays (one plate with rim crack, both with rim chips and frits), circa 1710, wheel cut mark 'N:79. +'

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A PAIR OF CHINESE IMARI PLATES decorated in iron-red, green and yellow enamels and gilt on underglaze-blue with a central peony-spray beside grass and hibiscus, the border with a band of four flower-clusters, the reverse with a continuous band of scrolling flower-sprays (one plate with rim crack, both with rim chips and frits), circa 1710, wheel cut mark 'N:79. +'
21.6cm. diam. (2)

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The engraved mark 'N:79 +' is an inventory mark of the Dresden Palace collection of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, founder of the manufacture of Meissen porcelain and collector of Chinese, Japanese and Continental porcelain

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