Live Auction 20036Two Private Collections of European Ceramics, Gold Boxes and Silver
THREE MEISSEN PORCELAIN ARMORIAL PLATES
Lot 142

THREE MEISSEN PORCELAIN ARMORIAL PLATES

CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMEN 61 AND 67

Closed16 December 2021

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THREE MEISSEN PORCELAIN ARMORIAL PLATES
CIRCA 1745-50, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMEN 61 AND 67
Painted with a crowned coat-of-arms in an escutcheon on a mound above rococo scroll supports surrounded by flower sprays, within an ozier-moulded border

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A plate from this service forms part of the Wark Collection in the Cummer Museum, Jacksonville (museum no. AG.1966.23.14), and is illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, The Wark Collection, London, 2011, p. 463, no. 555, where it is confirmed that the arms are as yet unidentified. Another plate from this service was sold by Christie's, Geneva, on the 17 November 1980, lot 109.