TWO MEISSEN GREEN-GROUND PLATES, one painted with putti with an artist's palette and a wreath of roses before a ruined arch, the emerald-green border reserved with putti emblematic of the Arts within moulded gilt scroll and foliage cartouches, the other with exotic birds in a wooded landscape vignette within an apple-green border reserved with panels of flowers, blue crossed swords and dot marks, the first with incised A and blue B, the second with Pressnummer 56, circa 1770