CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20

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A MEISSEN PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20
The centre painted with four sprays of ombrierte Holzschnitt Blumen including a pink rose and pansies with ombrierte insects, the shaped ozier-moulded border finely painted with four vignettes between brown staves bound with gilt ribbons, one vignette with Harlequin and Pierrot from the Commedia dell'Arte, the other three painted after Watteau with figures in landscapes, within a shaped gilt band rim (minute wear to gilding, slight wear to enamels, pansies with flaking to blue enamel and wear)
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

A very similar plate sold by Christie's Geneva on 11th November 1985, lot 98, is now in the Hoffmeister Collection no. 201, where it is suggested that it could have been a sample piece (see D. Hoffmeister, Katalog Der Sammlung Hoffmeister [Hamburg, 1999], Vol. I, p. 312).

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