porcelain, 120 items: 24 dinner plates Ø 26 cm, 24 soup plates Ø 23 cm, 24 starter course or dessert plates Ø 22 cm, 24 bread plates Ø 15,5 cm, 1 soup tureen with lid height: 28 cm, length 38 cm, 2 ragout dishes with lids height: 19,5 cm, length 34 cm, 3 oval lidded tureens height: 15 cm, length 30 cm, 4 sauce tureens with fixer saucer height: 11,5 cm, length 27,5 cm, 2 oval bowls height: 4,5 cm, length 26 cm, 2 round bowls height: 6 cm, Ø 25 cm, 2 square dishes height: 8,5 cm, Ø 22,5 cm, 2 round platters Ø 31,5 cm, 36,5 cm, 3 oval platters length 38 cm, 3 oval platters length 40 cm, the segmented bodies with wide and narrow gilt edging and slanting stripes, "Altozier-Relief", the rim with polychrome painted butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, bees etc., the well with diverse birds perched among branches, tureen and lids each with 4 paired birds, the platters with very large paired birds, painted decoration of excellent quality; Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1960, all items of prime quality (Ru)

“Altozier-Relief”, this noble moulded décor derives its ornamental quality from woven willow rods (French osier=willow rod)

Lit.:
Triumph der blauen Schwerter, Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710- 1815, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2010, p 383, cat.no. 493, ill. painted bird décor;