CIRCA 1728, LARGE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK WITH PAINTER'S S BETWEEN THE BLADES

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A MEISSEN IMARI PLATE
CIRCA 1728, LARGE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK WITH PAINTER'S S BETWEEN THE BLADES
Painted in underglaze blue enriched in enamels and gilding, the central flower-spray surrounded by flowers and a border of blue-ground lappets alternating with arched lappets, within a scalloped gilt line, the underside with two flowering plants and flowering prunus branches (minor slight wear)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 16th-17th October 1989, lot 269 (part)

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

For a similar example see Hermann Jedding, Meißener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts in Hamburger Privatbesitz (Hamburg, 1982), pl. 140, nos. 131 and 132 (dated 1730); and M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (London, 2008), p. 492, no. 226 for a slightly later plate by the same painter.

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