Lot 17
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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE PLATE
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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE PLATE

CIRCA 1728-30, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE PLATE
CIRCA 1728-30, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
Painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, the centre with a 'salami' medallion of iron-red foliage and green, yellow and purple flowerheads, the well with a band of interlocking gilt scrolls enclosing Böttger-lustre diamond-shaped panels with gilt trelliswork, the border with gilt scrolls and strapwork centred by Böttger-lustre and gilt flowerhead panels alternating with four cartouches painted with Orientals at various pursuits on terraces, one scene with three figures tending a tea-kettle on a fire, another with figures seated at a low table, within four elongated quatrefoil Böttger-lustre cartouches issuing brown and gilt scrolls, within a gilt rim, the underside with three branches of indianische Blumen (some slight wear to enamels of central medallion and some typical minor wear to gilding)
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A plate of very similar design in the State Collection, Dresden, is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775, Exhibition Catalogue, Porzellansammlung Zwinger, Dresden, 1996, p. 179, no. 135. Also see D. Hoffmeister, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Hamburg, 1999, Vol. II, p. 112, no. 54 for another example.

Four plates of the same type from 'A Highly Important Private Collection of Meissen' were sold by Christie's London on 11 December 2007, lots 21-24.

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