CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON PLATE
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Painted with a Koreanische Löwe wrapped around pierced chinoiserie rockwork, before a banded hedge and a bird perched on flowering branches and a peacock in flight above, the border with three flowering branches, enriched in gilding (some rubbing to enamels and gilding of dragon and rockwork)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Reichert, Munich, from whom it was acquired in 1994.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A pair of plates of this very rare type sold in these Rooms on 2nd October 1978, lot 167, are now in a private German Collection and are illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch et al, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen' Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf and Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Dresden Exhibition Catalogue (Munich, 1997), p. 141, no. 100. Another example was sold by Sotheby's London on 18th October 1988, lot 380. R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich 1966), no. 290 illustrates a related plate with two birds perched on the branch, and without a peacock in flight.

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