A very large Meissen dish, last quarter 18th centuryPainted in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with a bird perched on rockwork flanked by flowering indianische Blumen within concentric lines around the well, the rim with indianische Blumen issuing from rockwork, the reverse with an underglaze-blue band of stylised scrolling foliage, 38.6cm diam., crossed swords mark and asterisk in underglaze-blue, impressed numerals, numeral in iron-red and /. in underglaze blue inside footrim注脚A similarly decorated large dish is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (Cassidy-Geiger 2008, no. 223). The author notes that the decoration is based on a Japanese dish, one of 804 Asian ceramics left to Augustus the Strong in 1722 by a member of his court, Daniel Friedrich Raschke, who acted as his agent in Holland.