Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 177
A Meissen leaf-shaped dish, circa 1750-60
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen leaf-shaped dish, circa 1750-60
Finely moulded with veins and painted in underglaze-blue and embellished in gilding with a large rose and scattered insects and smaller flowers around the rim, the branch handle embellished in underglaze-blue and gilding, the rim with a gilt scrollwork border, possibly slightly later, 26cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue,
Footnotes
A similar leaf-shaped dish is illustrated by K.-P. Arnold, Meissener Blaumalerei aus drei Jahrhunderten (1989), no. 219.
