A MEISSEN ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE SWAN SERVICE
CIRCA 1738-39, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S QUARTERED CIRCLE MARK TO FOOTRIM
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein, the centre with two swans and a heron among bulrushes, waves, fish and shells with a heron in flight above, against a spirally-radiating shell-moulded ground, the border centred with the Brühl coat-of-arms with lion supporters and with scattered sprays and sprigs of indianische Blumen, within a shaped gilt-dentil rim (wear to gilding around rim, small discoloured firing fault to centre below heron in flight)
9 in. (22.9 cm.) wide
A MEISSEN ARMORIAL PLATE FROM THE SWAN SERVICE
CIRCA 1738-39, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, DREHER'S QUARTERED CIRCLE MARK TO FOOTRIM
Modelled by J.J. Kändler and J.F. Eberlein, the centre with two swans and a heron among bulrushes, waves, fish and shells with a heron in flight above, against a spirally-radiating shell-moulded ground, the border centred with the Brühl coat-of-arms with lion supporters and with scattered sprays and sprigs of indianische Blumen, within a shaped gilt-dentil rim (wear to gilding around rim, small discoloured firing fault to centre below heron in flight)
9 in. (22.9 cm.) wide
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