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A Meissen yellow-ground cabinet plate
painted with a vignette of a messanger bringing a letter to a lady seated in a garden, the fluted border with four scroll-moulded mirror shaped panels painted with couples at liesure and four shield shaped panels painted in puce with harbour scenes within moulded white and gilt foliage and scale pattern sections below coronets, the shaped rim moulded with a band of stiff leaves, incised 117, Pressnummer 8, blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880 -- 23.7cm. diam.
See colour plate 9
painted with a vignette of a messanger bringing a letter to a lady seated in a garden, the fluted border with four scroll-moulded mirror shaped panels painted with couples at liesure and four shield shaped panels painted in puce with harbour scenes within moulded white and gilt foliage and scale pattern sections below coronets, the shaped rim moulded with a band of stiff leaves, incised 117, Pressnummer 8, blue crossed swords mark, circa 1880 -- 23.7cm. diam.
See colour plate 9