A Meissen pate-sur-pate plate circa 1890 the centre decorated in pate-sur-pate with a scantily-cl

A Meissen pate-sur-pate plate circa 1890 the centre decorated in pate-sur-pate with a scantily-clad maiden seated on a curved arch, on her lap a cupid playing with flowers which have fallen from a cornucopia she is supporting, to her left side a pair of doves, the arch decorated with a recumbent lion and a crayfish, all against a pink ground within a raised gilt and platinum scroll circular border against a cobalt-blue ground, the rim moulded with flowerheads picked out in gildng and outlined with gilt ovals crossed swords in underglaze-blue, impressed 8 18. 23.5cm., 9 5/8in. The Sevres factory created interest at the London World Exhibition of 1851 with its newly developed pate-sur-pate technique, though it would still take scientist Dr Heintze up to 1878 before the Meissen factory had mastered the technique. The pieces were exhibited in the Internationalen Kunstausstellung im Kgl. Glaspalast in Munich in 1888, and then won great acclaim at the World Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. See H. Jedding Mei§ener Porzellan des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, pp. 90f.