Sale 2622
Amsterdam
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5 May 2004
Price realised
EUR 4,182
Estimate
A rare Meissen porcelain 'famille verte' dish CIRCA 1735, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH POMMELS Painted in colours after Chinese examples with two birds, insects and blossoming peonies, the reverse with two stylised flower branches in iron-red 32.8 cm. diam.
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Cf. D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Band I, Hamburg, 1999, p. 228, ill. 133 for a comparable but smaller dish.
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