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AN ANSBACH PLATE
CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE A MARK
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AN ANSBACH PLATE
CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE A MARK
Painted in puce camaïeu, the centre with a bouquet and scattered flower-sprays, the well with a band of gilt scrolls and stylised flowerheads, the lobed border moulded with an ozier band divided by four shaped oval gilt rococo-scroll cartouches enclosing river landscape vignettes with trees, figures and buildings, shaped gilt band rim (slight wear to gilding, principally to well)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.
Lot Essay
Of so-called Ansbachermuster, the Preiskurant of 1767 lists mittlere schüssel mit purpurnen landschafften und starck vergoldeten Grotesquen at 20 Gulden.