Pair of 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Shell-Shaped Dishes.

Lot: 116

Dresden, Germany.
Mid-18th Century.
Of shell-moulded, scallop-form, finely painted with Deutsche Blumen in polychrome enamels, with vining floral bouquets and sprigs under brown lines.
Both with crossed swords marks in underglaze blue, one with a puce triangle. Both impressed 26.
2 1/2 H. x 9 7/8 W. x 9 1/4 D.
By descent from the Kaumheimer family, Stuttgart, Germany.
Both with several short firing cracks, obscured, on one, with scattered sprigs to the exterior wall. Some flaking to brown line rims.

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