A MEISSEN KAKIEMON PLATE painted with a dragon hiding behind a green, blue and yellow rock and tormented by a cockerel perched on a flowering branch and a bird in flight above with a long tail, the border with three sprays of indianische Blumen within a brown line rim (three restored rim chips), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's / to footrim, circa 1728

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON PLATE painted with a dragon hiding behind a green, blue and yellow rock and tormented by a cockerel perched on a flowering branch and a bird in flight above with a long tail, the border with three sprays of indianische Blumen within a brown line rim (three restored rim chips), blue crossed swords mark, Dreher's / to footrim, circa 1728
21.5cm. diam

Lot Essay

Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, no. 290 for an example in the Reiss-Museum, Mannheim; a pair similar sold in these Rooms, 2 October 1978, lot 167; see also Masako Schono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Meisseener Porzellanmanufaktur, no. 20

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