A MEISSEN PLATE, circa 1735, painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Schmetterling' pattern of a butterfly on flowering branches, further scattered flower sprays to the brown-edged rim, 23.7cm diameter, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed E inside footrim for Johann Gottfried Eckoldt PROVENANCE: Private German collection. FOOTNOTES: For a discussion of the Schmetterling pattern See Julia Weber, 'Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern‘ (2013), vol.II, p.344. For a similarly decorated plate in the Hoffmeister Collection, see Dieter Hoffmeister, ‘Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Hoffmeister’ (1999), vol.I, cat.143. For another in the Wark Collection, seeUlrich Pietsch, 'Early Meissen Porcelain' (2011), p.253, cat.246.