A Fine Meissen Oval Dish Decorated with Birds and Insects with a scalloped gilt rim decorated with an Altbrandenstein relief moulded pattern of alternating trellis and floral design. Four butterflies are painted at the corners of the dish. The centre of the dish is painted with two birds on branches among insects.
Further Details: 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 was first recorded in Johann Friedrich Eberlein’s (1695-1749) 1741 taxa.