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A MEISSEN BROCADE-PATTERN KAKIEMON AND IMARI PUNT-SHAPED SPOON-TRAY

CIRCA 1735-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN BROCADE-PATTERN KAKIEMON AND IMARI PUNT-SHAPED SPOON-TRAY
CIRCA 1735-40, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The top diagonal section painted with the flying fox and squirrel among vine and banded hedge, the lower section with a brocade pattern of chequered lozenges variously painted with diaper-pattern, black whorls on a pale-turquoise ground and gilt stylised peony on an iron-red ground, within a brown line rim, the underside with scattered indianische Blumen (restoration to left hand end of dish)
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) wide
Provenance
The Collection of the Earls Fitzwilliam
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 30th June 1981, lot 116
Kathy Gillmeister, gifted in 1987
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

An almost identical example was sold in these Rooms on 10th July 2007, lot 74. Also see Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts aus Bad Pyrmonter Privatbesitz Schloss Bad Pyrmont 2002-2003 Exhibition Catalogue (2002), p. 75 for another similar example.

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