Design 17/20: Silver, Furniture & Ceramics
Design 17/20: Silver, Furniture & Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Martin and Helene Schwalberg
A Meissen Imari Octagonal Plate, Circa 1735-40
Lot Closed
October 18, 06:30 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Imari Octagonal Plate, Circa 1735-40
based on a Japanese original, painted with a bird on a rocky outcropping before a pine tree, the border with cloud-shaped panels reserving phoenix birds, the reverse with three large Imari sprigs, and concentric circles in underglaze-blue, crossed swords and K mark in underglaze-blue
width 8 3/4 in., 22.2 cm
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.