Sale 6925
London
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5 July 2004
Price realised
GBP 1,314
Estimate
A Meissen Kakiemon plate CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 34 Painted with a large running red tiger with spiralling gilt stripes, two flowerheads and large branching flowering stems of bamboo, one curved about the edge of the well, some red flowers enriched in gilding (restored chip to rim at 3 o'clock, minute restored rim chip at 5 o'clock, minute areas of wear) 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Pauls Eisenbeiss Collection, according to the attached collection label.
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For a similar example in the Carabelli Collection see Ulrich Pietsch, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 2000), p. 208, no. 94.
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