A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE PLATE painted in tones of blue with a peacock perched among prunus issuing from rockwork within a border of radiating panels of flowering shrubs, birds and Orientals within a shaped chocolate line rim, the reverse with a band of meandering flowers, the centre with inverted blue crossed swords mark above o beneath a prunus tree, Pressnummer 20, circa 1740
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A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE PLATE painted in tones of blue with a peacock perched among prunus issuing from rockwork within a border of radiating panels of flowering shrubs, birds and Orientals within a shaped chocolate line rim, the reverse with a band of meandering flowers, the centre with inverted blue crossed swords mark above o beneath a prunus tree, Pressnummer 20, circa 1740
25.8cm. diam.
Exhibited
Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 36
Lot Essay
Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms, 30 September 1991, lot 213 and a pair sold Christie's Geneva, 14 May 1990, lot 67; see also Syz, no. 145 and Wark no. 96