Description:
Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Rouge de Fer Decorated Plates and a Pair of Saucers, c. 1730, the plates decorated at the center with a tree peony, bamboo, and a fence, the rims with shallow-carved scrolling peony sprays, and the cavettos with trellis design with four floral cartouches highlighted with blue enamel parentheses, (minor rim chips),dia. 11; the fluted saucers ornamented with a floral centerpiece on a table, with triangle rim border, reportedly exported to Dresden from the collection of Augustus The Strong, Elector of Saxony, with the Johanneum mark "N=96," inscribed on the base, (rim chip, hairline),dia. 4 1/2 in.
Provenance: Estate of Peter Rosenberg.
Estimate $600-800
Plate 1- small 1/8 in. shallow rim chip.
Plate 2- three small shallow chips to underside of rim
Saucer 1- 1/2 in. hairline barely shows on exterior rim.
Saucer 2- 1/2 and 1/4 in. shallow rim chips on exterior rim.
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