A Fine Large Meissen Foliate Dish Decorated with Birds and Insects with a scalloped gilt rim decorated with an Altbrandenstein relief moulded pattern of alternating trellis and floral design. Insects are painted in four panels. The centre is painted with a parrot and two other birds on branches.

The Altbrandenstein relief pattern is named after Friedrich August von Brandenstein, who in 1739 was chief master of the kitchen at the Saxon court. The ‘old Brandenstein’ pattern first recorded in Johann Friedrich Eberlein’s (1695-1749) 1741 taxa.