A Meissen dish, circa 1740

of lobed pentagonal form, painted with a Kauffahrtei scene, within a quatrefoil frame embellished with purple scrolls, gilt-scroll border to the rim, the reverse with small flower sprigs, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilded numeral 55., 15.1cm., 5 7/8 in. diam., together with a lozenge-shaped Meissen dish, later decorated with chinoiserie figures on a pedestal, gilt scroll borders, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilded numeral 34., 17.2cm., 6 3/4 in. wide

Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 11th November 1985, lots 127 and 129.

The pentagonal dish is in overall good condition, there are two patches of wear to the enamels of the painted scene. To the lozenge-shaped dish, there is considerable scratching to the surface of the well of the dish and to the painted figures. Both with some minor wear to gilded borders.
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A very similar five-sided dish with a turquoise ground to the reverse was in the Hoffmeister collection, sold at Bonhams London, 25th November 2009, lot 108, published in the collection catalogue vol. II, Hamburg, 1999, pp. 388-389, no. 259b where the present example is also mentioned.