Live Auction 7815White Gold 18th Century Porcelain from Meissen and Du Paquier Property of The Byrnes Children Trust
Christie’s roundel
Lot 78

A MEISSEN LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH FROM THE 'KINDER A LA RAPHAEL' SERVICE

CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARK, PRESSNUMMER 61, DREHER'S // AND PAINTER'S T

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 1,250

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A MEISSEN LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH FROM THE 'KINDER A LA RAPHAEL' SERVICE
CIRCA 1765-70, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARK, PRESSNUMMER 61, DREHER'S // AND PAINTER'S T
Painted with two children playing hockey within a border of ribbon-tied foliage swags, within a shaped moulded rim (repaired rim chip at 9 o'clock, extensive chipping to footrim)
13 in. (33 cm.) wide

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 7th October 1996, lot 385

Specialist note

For an extensive discussion of this series of dishes Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, 2000), p. 343, no. 244 where he illustrates a similar dish with this subject taken from La Crosse, pl. 41 of Stella's Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance published in Paris in 1667.