porcelain, 120 items: 24 dinner plates Ø 26 cm, 24 soup plates Ø 23 cm, 24 starter 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 attached 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 Ø31,5 cm, 36,5 cm, 3 oval platters length: 38 cm, 3 oval platters length: 40 cm, the segmented body with wide and narrow gilt edging and slanted bands, "Altozier" relief, the rim with polychrome painted butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, bees et al, the well decorated with diverse paired birds perched among branches, the tureen with lids each with 4 different paired birds, platters with very large paired birds, painting of excellent workmanship
Meissen, underglaze blue crossed swords ca. 1960, all parts 1st quality (Ru)

The "Altozier" relief décor, a noble relief décor structured in twelve elements, derives its ornamental character, as the name suggests, from a willow rod basket weave pattern (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. bird painting;