Breakfast Plate in Porcelain by Konrad Hentschel for Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Germany, 1896

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Few signs of wear. Our breakfast plate comes from a Berlin collector's household. Completely undamaged, without restoration, and with few … Read more Few signs of wear. Our breakfast plate comes from a Berlin collector's household. Completely undamaged, without restoration, and with few signs of wear, it has survived for approximately 120 years. The delicate underglaze decoration radiates as it did 120 years ago. On the back, the plate bears the "Meissen" sword mark, a pre-1924 version, a painter's mark "74" in underglaze blue, and the impressed numbers "153" and "56."

This rare breakfast plate comes from a déjeuner by Konrad Hentschel, who designed the Crocus Déjeuner in 1896 and enjoyed great success with it. At the 1900 World's Fair in Paris, the Meissen manufactory presented the then-new Art Nouveau style, attracting considerable attention and commercial success. The design was later modified; the Crocus breakfast plate with openwork rim decoration dates from this period. This piece has an attribution mark,
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