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Lot 141

A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI PLATE

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1760-70

Closed12 May 2010

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GBP 3,500

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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI PLATE
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 22, THE DECORATION CIRCA 1760-70
Painted by F.F. Mayer of Pressnitz, with a family watching a peep show in a magic lantern surmounted by a drummer and flanked by the attendant and a child, the Dulong-pattern moulded border with four vignettes of buildings and ruins in wooded estuary landscapes, gilt line border (rim chip at 3 o'clock, slightly warped and with firing crack to underside, slight chipping to footrim)
10 1/8 in. (25.6 cm.) wide

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 10th March 1970, lot 90
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6th June 1973, lot 38
With M. & G. Segal, Basel, 2000

Specialist note

Another plate from the service is illustrated by Gustav E. Pazaurek, Deutsche Fayence und Porzellan Hausmaler (Leipzig, 1925), Vol. II, p. 342, no. 305.