A FRANKENTHAL PIERCED OVAL DISH, the centre painted with an exotic duck in flight, another swimming among reeds in a landscape vignette with distant buildings, the border with entwined green ribbon and zig-zag bands within a gilt line rim (cracked from the right hand side across the top between the border and the well extending half way round and with associated chips to the underside, slight rubbing to green ribbon and gilt rim), blue crowned CT mark above 7, gilder's Se, incised L and I, circa 1770
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A FRANKENTHAL PIERCED OVAL DISH, the centre painted with an exotic duck in flight, another swimming among reeds in a landscape vignette with distant buildings, the border with entwined green ribbon and zig-zag bands within a gilt line rim (cracked from the right hand side across the top between the border and the well extending half way round and with associated chips to the underside, slight rubbing to green ribbon and gilt rim), blue crowned CT mark above 7, gilder's Se, incised L and I, circa 1770
28cm. wide
Lot Essay
Cf. Friedrich Hofmann, Das europäische Porzellan im Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, no. 676 for a service painted with birds of very similar type