Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 65

A MEISSEN IMARI PLATE AND A JAPANESE IMARI LOBED DISH

THE MEISSEN PLATE CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND K MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE JAPANESE DISH LATE 17TH CENTURY

Closed12 May 2010

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A MEISSEN IMARI PLATE AND A JAPANESE IMARI LOBED DISH
THE MEISSEN PLATE CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND K MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE JAPANESE DISH LATE 17TH CENTURY
The centre of the Japanese prototype painted with a partridge perched by a swirling river, the scalloped border with gold, red and blue panels reserved with flowers and panels with phoenix, the underside with peonies (gilt rim worn away, some further slight wear); the Meissen plate similarly decorated, the lobed design within a circular gilt line rim (minute wear to well)
The Meissen plate 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.) diam, the dish 9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) wide (2)

With M. & G. Segal, Basel, 1992 (the Meissen example)
With Guest & Gray, London, 1998 (the Japanese example)

Specialist note

For a similar Meissen plate (which follows the lobed outline of the Japanese original), see M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (London, 2008), pp. 494-495, no. 228. For a similar Japanese dish, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces, British Museum Exhibition Catalogue (London, 1990), p. 224, no. 237.