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A pair of Meissen armorial dessert dishes, 19th century.
Estimate
10 000 - 15 000 SEK
883 - 1 320 EUR
936 - 1 400 USD
Hammer price
14 000 SEK
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A pair of Meissen armorial dessert dishes, 19th century.
Underglaze blue factory mark. Inpressed no 47. Lobed rim, with a pierced decoration of water lillies surrounding the central mirror that is decorated with swans and cranes in a pond with fishes. Finely painted and gilded decoration, central coat of arms in acollé with the arms of von Sachsen and the coat of arms of Sweden beneath a royal coronet. Diameter 24.5 cm.
Provenance
The plates are from a dinner service comissioned as a wedding service on the coronation of prins Albert of Sachsen and his wife Carola (granddaughter of the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf).
Literature
Made with inspiration from the Swan service, designed by JJ Kändler and JF Eberlein 1737-1741.