Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 77

A PAIR OF MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE CHINOISERIE PLATES

CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS, PAINTER'S MO" MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 12

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 2,750

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN BLUE AND WHITE CHINOISERIE PLATES
CIRCA 1765, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS, PAINTER'S MO" MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 12
Painted with Orientals by pavilions and willow trees, the diaper band borders reserved with four panels issuing flowering prunus (one footrim with two chips, further slight minor chipping to footrims)
9 3/8 in. (23.7 cm.) diam. (2)

Specialist note

For a discussion of this service, and the attribution to the painter Johann Carl Möbius, see Nicholas Zumbulyadis, Bernhard von Barsewisch and Hermann Reiff, Chinese Fantasies: A Most Unsual Chinoiserie Meissen Dinner Service in Underglaze-Blue, The Journal of American Ceramic Circle, Vol. XV (2009), pp. 47-61.