Stock #: 1014050 Size: 30cm wide
Price: AU$ 2,450.00
US$ 2,572.50
€ 1,935.50
£ 1,617.00
Large Meissen charger, of petal-lobed rim form, painted in the Kakiemon manner with three large sprays of flowering plants and a central butterfly, the rim with three small sprays and three further butterflies, the whole with numerous small leaves and flowers painted over firing flaws, within a brown line rim.
Blue crossed swords with dots at the pommels, impressed 20, also inscribed // to the footrim.
Circa 1740

References: ref. Size collection #97 for a dinner plate in this pattern. As a serving dish, the pattern has been adapted; the butterfly remains in the center, but has lost the branch it rests on, and the distinct rim sprigs have been relocated to the center, and enla

Condition: rim chip restored