Plate

The pearled, rosette-like centre of the plate is en-framed with vine leaves, placed on each other in three layers. The gilding of the inside and outside leaves is matt the veins on the middle, white line of leaves are brightly gilt. The refined moulds of the natural prints are emphasized by graphic means. Relief vine leaf patterns were a frequent way of decoration from the end of the 18th to the end of the 19th century, used both on stoneware and on china all over Europe. Barbara Mundt calls the motif Old German-Greek when describing a similar plate manufacture between 1836 and 1940. She added that relief decors meant great business success for Meissen their motifs were somehow connected with the shapes of pressed glasses (see Mundt 1891 p.207 and pict. 210, p.211 and pict.207.).