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Meissen Plate
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Print Details
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1735
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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Germany
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Description
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An early Meissen plate painted with underglaze blue with the ‘Onion pattern - Zwiebelmuster’.
Crossed swords mark in underglaze blue. Painter’s mark of three dots in the foot-rim.
This pattern became one of Meissen’s most famous patterns.
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Condition
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Slice chip to the underside of the rim restored and associated small crack.
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Literature
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Museum für Kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg, Exhibition catalogue, 1989, Meissner Blaumalerei aus Drei Jarhunderts, p.206, No.176 & col pl. 177.
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