A Meissen porcelain trefoil tray, circa 1740
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description
of barbed trefoil shape with short handle, painted with sprays of indianische Blumen within an iron-red border with purple chrysanthemum flowerheads and gilt flowers and foliage, incised Dreher’s X and four dots mark, impressed numeral 26
Width 31 cm; 12 ⅛ in
Property of a New York Collector, Christie’s, New York, 7 June 2013, lot 339;
Acquired at the above sale.
A tray of this unusual form but with the addition of three trembleuse stands is in the Museo Nazionale della Ceramica Duca di Martina, Villa Floridiana, Naples (inv. no. 2915) and illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, Triumph of the Blue Swords, Meissen Porcelain for Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie 1710-1815, Leipzig, 2010, p. 238, cat. no. 160.
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