A PAIR OF ZÜRICH PLATES, with feuilles-de-choux moulding and finely painted with landscapes with figures before a tree and buildings, the borders each with three landscape vignettes within gilt dentil rims (one with two minute chips to rim and minute footrim chip, very slight rubbing to gilding), blue Z and two dots marks, incised ID marks, circa 1775

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A PAIR OF ZÜRICH PLATES, with feuilles-de-choux moulding and finely painted with landscapes with figures before a tree and buildings, the borders each with three landscape vignettes within gilt dentil rims (one with two minute chips to rim and minute footrim chip, very slight rubbing to gilding), blue Z and two dots marks, incised ID marks, circa 1775
23.5cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Landscape decoration at Zürich was usually base on engravings, particularly those of Anton Waterloos, see Siegfried Ducret, Die Zürcher Porzellanmanufaktur, vol. I, p. 89, figs. 65-70

Cf. the examples sold by Christie's Geneva on 11 May 1981, lot 3 and 12 May 1986, lot 119

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