A MEISSEN ARMORIAL OVAL DISH FROM THE ST. ANDREW THE FIRST CALLED SERVICE, the centre moulded with Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen and painted with scattered deutsche Blumen, the cruciform border alternately moulded with flower-sprays or painted with the badge and the order of St. Andrew within a gilt trellis rim, blue crossed swords mark with dot and Pressnummer 27, red Hermitage inventory number i478., circa 1744

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL OVAL DISH FROM THE ST. ANDREW THE FIRST CALLED SERVICE, the centre moulded with Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen and painted with scattered deutsche Blumen, the cruciform border alternately moulded with flower-sprays or painted with the badge and the order of St. Andrew within a gilt trellis rim, blue crossed swords mark with dot and Pressnummer 27, red Hermitage inventory number i478., circa 1744
45.5cm wide

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Cf R. Rückert: Meissener Porzellan, fig. 482, for a similar piece from this large service given by Augustus III to Elizabeth I of Russia in 1744. Some 440 pieces of the service are listed in an inventory, dated 5 November 1745, of certain properties belonging to the Imperial houshold of St. Petersburg. Several pieces from this service were sold in our Geneva Rooms, 7 May 1987, lots 190-194

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