A Meissen Imari oval butter-dish and cover
Circa 1745, blue crossed swords and K mark to interior for Kretschmar, Pressnummer 46 to underside
The butter-tub painted with a blue ground band with chrysanthemums and gilt foliage divided at each end with a flying phoenix within a lobed cartouche and gilt and iron-red panels with flowering plants, between moulded horizontal ribs alternating with gilt lines, each end with an upright flange with an iron-red flowerhead, the cover with a scalloped band of similar decoration, the long scroll finial flanked by a bird perched on a rock beside waves and a pine tree issuing from a rock about, within a gilt line rim (slight rim chip to one end of cover and slight rubbing to gilding of finial)
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) wide
A Meissen Imari oval butter-dish and cover
Circa 1745, blue crossed swords and K mark to interior for Kretschmar, Pressnummer 46 to underside
The butter-tub painted with a blue ground band with chrysanthemums and gilt foliage divided at each end with a flying phoenix within a lobed cartouche and gilt and iron-red panels with flowering plants, between moulded horizontal ribs alternating with gilt lines, each end with an upright flange with an iron-red flowerhead, the cover with a scalloped band of similar decoration, the long scroll finial flanked by a bird perched on a rock beside waves and a pine tree issuing from a rock about, within a gilt line rim (slight rim chip to one end of cover and slight rubbing to gilding of finial)
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) wide
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