CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 8

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EIGHT MEISSEN BRÜHLSCHES ALLERLEI-MOULDED GREEN-SCALE PLATES
Circa 1765, blue crossed swords marks, Pressnummer 8
Each painted in colors with a loose bouquet of fruit, vegetables and flowers, the border moulded in the Brühlsches Allerei pattern of variant diaper and basket-weave panels overlaid with flowering branches, gilt with six rocaille cartouches, their lower portion extending into the cavetto of the plate, the area between the top edge of the cartouches and the plate rim painted with green-scale pattern, gilt dentil waved rim
10¼in. (26cm.) diam. (8)

Lot Essay

For green-scale plates of the same shape from a Meissen service of similar date and decoration but moulded with the Preuszisch-musikalisches Dessin, see Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, no. 239.

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