CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH A DOT BETWEEN THE BLADES MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20

細節

A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH A DOT BETWEEN THE BLADES MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20
Painted in shades of underglaze blue with a peacock perched on a flowering tree, within a border of radiating panels of Oriental figures, birds, grasses and flowering plants within a shaped brown-line rim, the reverse with a band of meandering flowers enclosing a central flowering prunus tree issuing from rockwork (small rim chip to one point at 11 o'clock)
10¼ in. (26.2 cm.) wide

來源

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 30th September 1991, lot 213

出版

The World in Blue and White The Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition Catalogue (London, 2003), no. 33

展覽

London, Bath and Glasgow, The World in Blue and White June - November 2003

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

榮譽呈獻

Dominic Simpson

dsimpson@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3026

拍品專文

For another example with this remarkable pattern on the reverse, see Mary Campbell Gristina et al., The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), no. 96, and another example sold in these Rooms on 10th July 2007, lot 73.