A rare Meissen porcelain plate, circa 1735
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Lot closes
June 25, 11:39 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
Current Bid
400 EUR
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Description
painted with a blue tiger with yellow feet curling around bamboo surrounded by flowering peonies issuing at the top, to its side, a large branch of flowering peonies, the rim with three small sprigs, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Diameter 8 ⅞ in; 20 cm
Anonymous sale, Metz, Heidelberg, 23 October 2010, lot 538;
Acquired at the above sale.
A pair of plates decorated in this pattern was sold at Sotheby’s, London, 26 November 1985, lot 200, while a further example with a shaped rim, formerly in the Hoffmeister Collection, was later sold at Bonhams, London, 26 May 2010, lot 31. Five similarly decorated shaped dishes were in the Baron von Born Collection, Budapest, and sold at Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 4 December 1929, lots 82–86. One of these (lot 83) was purchased by Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold, Dresden, and is illustrated by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger in The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710–50, London, 2008, p. 516, cat. no. 244.
