A very large and unusual Meissen octagonal dish, circa 1740

A very large and unusual Meissen octagonal dish, circa 1740 Painted in underglaze-blue with a vase on a ledge containing leafy stems and further leaves overhead, within concentric circles, the rim with shaped blue-ground panels with circular reserves, the reverse with trailing leaves and concentric circles, 44.4cm across, crossed swords mark and K in underglaze-blue, impressed 20 (restored) Footnotes: This rare unfinished dish shows the first, underglaze-blue step in the creation of an elaborate Imari pattern based upon a Japanese original. A slightly smaller completed example (37cm across) is in the Ernst Schneider Collection in Schloss Lustheim, Munich (published by J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, II (2013), cat. no. 101). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com