CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 16

Details

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 16
Painted with birds in flight and perched among pine, prunus and bamboo issuing from pierced rockwork, the shaped border with scattered flower-sprays within a scalloped brown lined rim (some wear to enamels of well)
9 in. (23.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's London, 18th October 1988, lot 384 (part)
With Reichert, Munich, from whom it was acquired in January 1989.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

See the example sold in these Rooms on 8th July 2002, lot 65, and see Masako Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Meissener Porzellanmanufaktur (Munich, 1973), figs 74 and 75 for illustrations of a similar Meissen plate and a corresponding Japanese Kakiemon original.

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