A MEISSEN PLATE, circa 1735, painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Flying Fox' pattern of a squirrel perched on one of two banded hedges and another flying overhead, the scalloped rim edged in brown, 22.4cm diameter, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher’s mark of + for Johann Christoph Pietzsch inside the footrim PROVENANCE: Private German collection.