A PAIR OF MEISSEN PLATES painted in a bright palette with a spaniel barking at a brightly plumaged parrot eating cherries on a perch surrounded by scattered insects, the shaped border with brown and gilt scrolling foliage and shells (minor rubbing to enamels and gilt rims), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 16 to both, circa 1745 | Christie's

Lot 192

192

A PAIR OF MEISSEN PLATES painted in a bright palette with a spaniel barking at a brightly plumaged parrot eating cherries on a perch surrounded by scattered insects, the shaped border with brown and gilt scrolling foliage and shells (minor rubbing to enamels and gilt rims), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 16 to both, circa 1745

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PLATES painted in a bright palette with a spaniel barking at a brightly plumaged parrot eating cherries on a perch surrounded by scattered insects, the shaped border with brown and gilt scrolling foliage and shells (minor rubbing to enamels and gilt rims), blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 16 to both, circa 1745
23.5cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar example sold Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1992, lot 150; Hermann Schmitz, Ole Olsens Kunstsammlungen, Vol. II, no. 1462

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