1745, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED AND PRESSNUMMER 20

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A large Meissen armorial dish from the von Münchhausen service
1745, marked with underglaze blue crossed and Pressnummer 20
Painted in purple and enhanced in gilt with a standing mythical animal Fabeltier chasing a dragonfly, flanked by branches of Indianischen Blumen, further with insects and tiny flowersprays, the border surmounted by the crowned elaborate coat-of-arms depicting a monk, further with a continuous scroll and a gilt band, the wavy edge gilt
30 cm. diam.
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Lot Essay

See C. Boltz, 'Zu einem Meissener Tafelservice' in: Dresdener Kunstblätter, Dresden, 1975, Heft IV, pp.114-118 for a discussion about this service produced in 1745 and given as a present to Gerlach Adolf von Münchhausen by August III of Saxony.
L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellan der Europäischen Fabriken Band I, Braunschweig, 1974, p.79, ill.54.

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