Dresden octagonal plate, watteauesque design C.1860
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Dresden octagonal plate handprinted with Watteauesque couples alternating with flowers on yellow ground within girl borders
22.5cm
Circa 1860
Condition : wear to gold and yellow
Mark to base ‘AR’ in underglaze blue for Helena Wolfsohn, borrowed from the royal mark for ‘Augustus Rex’ used for a brief period in the 1730’s
Helena Wolfsohn was a successor of her father who run a porcelain business under the name L. Meyer & Söhne. She was buying white porcelain mostly in Meissen and decorated it imitating style of the oldest Meissen pieces by Johann Gregorius Höroldt. She also used Watteau paintings as her inspirational in the example
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