A MEISSEN FAMILLE VERTE LARGE CIRCULAR DISH painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, with three Jays with marked brown plumage, blue wing feathers and yellow throats and beaks, two perched on a flowering prunus branch, another in flight above and with iron-red and gilt camellia within a Sulkowski ozier border with four small flower sprays (some minute rubbing to enamels, footrim pierced for hanging), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's quartered circle and incised IX, circa 1735

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A MEISSEN FAMILLE VERTE LARGE CIRCULAR DISH painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, with three Jays with marked brown plumage, blue wing feathers and yellow throats and beaks, two perched on a flowering prunus branch, another in flight above and with iron-red and gilt camellia within a Sulkowski ozier border with four small flower sprays (some minute rubbing to enamels, footrim pierced for hanging), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's quartered circle and incised IX, circa 1735
39cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Behrends 'Meissener Musterbuch - Höroldt - Chinoiserien' Schulz Codex XVI pp. 174-180

A plate from the same service, was sold in these Rooms, 11 April 1988, lot 209 and another in the Schneider Collection is illustrated by S. Ducret, German Porcelain and Faience, no 35, where mention is made of this pattern being copied from a famille verte bowl in the collection of Augustus the Strong and still displayed in the State Collection in the Zwinger. A Fulda vase also bears the same design see S. Ducret, ibid., no. 152

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