CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S 7 TO FOOTRIM

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A MEISSEN PLATE
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S 7 TO FOOTRIM
Painted with Oriental and European scenes, the centre painted by C.F. Herold with four chinoiserie vignettes of Orientals at various pursuits on elaborate Régence supports reserved with Böttger-lustre sections gilt with diaper-pattern, within a gilt diaper-pattern well, the border painted by a different hand with four vignettes with merchants by boats and cargo, within similar gilt elongated quatrefoil cartouches divided by gilt scrolls and flowerheads (minor glaze pitting and a minute glazed-over chip to rim contemporary to firing)
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of this service see Dieter Hoffmeister, 'Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts' Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister (Hamburg, 1999) nos. 60-64. Several of the chinoiserie vignettes can be directly related to the Schulz Codex and many more preparatory drawings must once have existed.

For a slightly larger version of this plate with identical decoration see the example sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lot 46.

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