A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE SHAPED CIRCULAR PLATE

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND O MARKS BELOW A FLOWERING PRUNUS TREE ISSUING FROM ROCKWORK, PRESSNUMMER 20

Details

A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE SHAPED CIRCULAR PLATE
Circa 1740, blue crossed swords and O marks below a flowering prunus tree issuing from rockwork, Pressnummer 20
Painted with a peacock perched among prunus issuing from rockwork within a border of radiating panels of flowering shrubs, birds and Oriental figures within a shaped brown line rim, the underside of the border with a band of meandering flowers
10in. (26cm.) diam.

Provenance

With The Art Exchange, New York

Lot Essay

For other plates from the same see Hans Syz, et al, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 145; '250 Jahre Meissener Porzellan', Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz, April 1960, Abb. 17a - 18 for an example in the collection of Dr. Ernst Schneider; Ralph Wark and Maria Gristina, The Wark Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL, 1984, no. 96; The Anderson Collection, Christie's, London, 1 June 1992, lot 29; Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 30 September 1991, lot 213; and Anon. sale, Christie's, Geneva, 14 May 1990, lot 67.