CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED MARKS, PUCE AND GILT HM MONOGRAM

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A Pair of Meissen kakiemon plates
Circa 1740, blue crossed marks, puce and gilt HM monogram
Painted with a phoenix in flight above flowering shrubs issuing from pierced blue rockwork beside banded hedges, the borders with three trailing flowering branches, shaped brown line rims (minor rubbing to enamels)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

For a plate from the same service (also with a similar monogram) now in the Hoffmeister Collection, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, see Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan Des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol I, no. 127. A tray with a similar monogram is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Also see the plate sold in these Rooms on 9th October 1973, lot 48; another by Christie's Geneva on 16th November 1992, lot 164; and a sauceboat by Christie's New York on 16th-18th November 1999, lot 322.

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