A MEISSEN OVAL DISH OR STAND, circa 1740, painted in Imari style in underglaze-blue, enamels and gilding with a bird perched on a rock in a stylised oriental landscape, within a richly decorated floral and foliate rim reserved with two cartouches painted with phoenixes, 22.3cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral 26 inside the footrim PROVENANCE: Private German collection.