A MEISSEN PIERCED DESSERT-PLATE of Brühlsche-Allerlei pattern, the centre painted with a sliced root vegetable and scattered deutsche Blumen within a shaped border of pierced coloured flower-sprays divided by pierced trellis-pattern within a shaped gilt line rim (one chip to scroll in border), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 35 and 21, circa 1745

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A MEISSEN PIERCED DESSERT-PLATE of Brühlsche-Allerlei pattern, the centre painted with a sliced root vegetable and scattered deutsche Blumen within a shaped border of pierced coloured flower-sprays divided by pierced trellis-pattern within a shaped gilt line rim (one chip to scroll in border), blue crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 35 and 21, circa 1745
24.8cm. wide

Exhibited

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 53

Lot Essay

A service of this pattern, modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein was made for Heinrich, Count von Brühl in 1742

See Honey (1934), p. 206 fn. 304 for an entertaining exposé of Count Brühl's qualities as quoted by Horace Walpole in his Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George II (1822), Vol. II, p.72 ff.

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