A MEISSEN FAMILLE VERTE PLATE, the centre painted in a dark underglaze blue with a flowering shrub within an iron-red circular cartouche with white scrolling foliage, the border with peony and chrysanthemum within an underglaze blue diaper rim (slight rubbing to iron-red band), blue crossed swords mark, indistinct painter's mark to footrim and Dreher's ///, circa 1728
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A MEISSEN FAMILLE VERTE PLATE, the centre painted in a dark underglaze blue with a flowering shrub within an iron-red circular cartouche with white scrolling foliage, the border with peony and chrysanthemum within an underglaze blue diaper rim (slight rubbing to iron-red band), blue crossed swords mark, indistinct painter's mark to footrim and Dreher's ///, circa 1728
22cm. diam.
Lot Essay
Cf. Stefan Bursche, op. cit., no. 147; a larger example from the collection of Ernesto F. Blohm sold in these Rooms, 10 April 1989, lot 30 and another sold in these Rooms, 2 July 1990, lot 64