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105. A group of five Meissen plates, circa 1760-65
105
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105. A group of five Meissen plates, circa 1760-65
Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
Voluntary lot
Description
105. A group of five Meissen plates, circa 1760-65
Each with moulded decoration, the borders alternating with various species of brightly coloured birds alternating with fruits and flowers, the wells decorated with larger fruits or flowers and smaller sprays of each, 24cm diam., three with crossed swords mark with dot between the swords, two with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (5)
Provenance
All formerly in the Brigitte Britzke Collection, Bad Pyrmont;
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Zurich, 6 December 1991, lot 205 (part); the Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, sold at Bonhams London, 24 November 2010, lot 60 (plate a);
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück, sold at Bonhams London, 7 December 2011, lot 193 (plate b)
Literature
D. Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts Sammlung Hoffmeister, vol. I, 1999, no. 220 (plate a);
La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke 1709-1765/Das Meissner Porzellan der Britzke-Sammlung, exhibition catalogue, 2009, p. 277 (plate d)
Exhibited
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Sammlung Hoffmeister, 1999-2009 (plate a);
Fundación Caja Segovia, La Porcelana de Meissen en la Colección Britzke 1709-1765, 16 July to 18 November 2009;
Bad Pyrmont, Museum im Schloss, Friedrich der Große und seine Porzellanbestellungen in Meißen während des Siebenjährigen Krieges, 4 March to 2 September 2012 (plate d)
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