CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 16

Details

A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE SOUP-PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 16
Of Earl of Jersey type, painted after an engraving by Petrus Schenk with an Oriental figure holding a parasol and a companion bowing before huts and pine trees below a bird in flight within a rocky river or sea landscape, the border with scattered indianische Blumen, within a scalloped brown-line rim (some slight wear to enamels of well and rim)
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's London, 17th July 1968, lot 153
Anon., sale Sotheby's New York, 6th June 1973, lot 36
With Reichert, Munich, from whom it was acquired in 1992.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

See Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, (Amsterdam, 2000), p. 282 for a selection of dinner-plates from the service, and Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 62, nos. 228 and 229. See also a similar plate sold in these Rooms on 21st February 2005, lot 94.

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