CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Meissen chinoiserie plate
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
After a Chinese Famille verte original, painted with a small gnarled pine tree and ling chi growing in a stylised brightly panelled jardinière with blue scrolling feet, two ling chi enriched in gilding, the well with an iron-red and gilt border of flowerheads issuing from a gilt band at intervals, the border with four large flowering branches with red, yellow, blue and purple flowers, the red flowers enriched in gilding, within a brown line rim, the underside of Chinese form with sunken centre (minute frit to rim at 4 o'clock, small areas of wear to tree and base of jardinière, further areas of minute wear)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar plate is in the Hoffmeister Collection in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, and is illustrated by Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts', Katalog Der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, p. 290, no. 183, where other examples are listed, although extremely similar, it has a gilt line rim and appears to be of slightly later date (the underside has a Pressnummer 21).

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