A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH A DOT BETWEEN THE BLADES MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20
Painted in shades of underglaze blue with a peacock perched on a flowering tree, within a border of radiating panels of Oriental figures, birds, grasses and flowering plants within a shaped brown-line rim, the reverse with a band of meandering flowers enclosing a central flowering prunus tree issuing from rockwork (small rim chip to one point at 11 o'clock)
10¼ in. (26.2 cm.) wide
A MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE PLATE
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH A DOT BETWEEN THE BLADES MARK, PRESSNUMMER 20
Painted in shades of underglaze blue with a peacock perched on a flowering tree, within a border of radiating panels of Oriental figures, birds, grasses and flowering plants within a shaped brown-line rim, the reverse with a band of meandering flowers enclosing a central flowering prunus tree issuing from rockwork (small rim chip to one point at 11 o'clock)
10¼ in. (26.2 cm.) wide
