CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20

Details

A MEISSEN KAKIEMON SHAPED OCTAGONAL PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20
Similarly decorated to the preceding, with the addition of a pair of quail on the border (restored rim chip at 12 o'clock, and further smaller restored rim chips at 4 o'clock, patches of wear to enamels of well)
9 in. (23.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's London 29th June 1982, lot 69.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated by Siegfried Ducret, 'Frühmeissener Dekors' Keramik Freunde der Schweiz, No. 50 (1960), p. 21, fig. 57. 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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