Lot 55
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A MEISSEN PART SERVICE

Details
A MEISSEN PART SERVICE
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE PLATES WITH PRESSNUMMER 22

Moulded with Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen, the centers painted in colours with various fruit, nuts and vegetables, the panelled rims with vignettes of exotic animals and birds perched on branches alternating with loose bouquets within shaped gilt rims, some wear to rims and surface on all, comprising:
Twelve plates, two cracked, two chipped, 9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) diam.
Two low bowls, 8½in. (21.5cm.) diam. (14)

Lot Essay

Cf. Stefan Bursche, Meissen, Steinzeug und Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Berlin, 1980, fig. 251 for a similar platter from a service sold at Christie's London, March 28, 1977, lot 93, now in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin