A MEISSEN ARMORIAL DINNER PLATE CIRCA 1745

from the Münchhausen service, painted in puce camaieu and gilt with a fantastical animal in a rocky landscape surrounded by small birds and insects, the rim with the Münchhausen arms beneath a coronet and with a foliate scroll border, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and impressed numeral 16. Two small ground chips to rim edge.

Two 1/2 in. ground rim chips and 12 o'clock and 9 o'clock, which are gilded over and are not particularly obtrusive. The gild details in the central panel may have been retouched.
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From the service given by Augustus III to Gerlach Adolf von Münchhausen (1688-1770) in 1745.