Floral Plate #6

This is a nice floral deep or soup plate made by Royal Vienna in the 18th century before they started using the date codes in the 1780s. The piece is hand painted with a nice floral arrangement in the well of the plate with three smaller flowers and two leaves filling in the rest of the space. The rim has a nice basket weave relief design to it with four more flowers over that and a brown trim to the edge. What is interesting regarding this piece is that it came in a set of eight plates all of which were painted by a different painter working for them so you can compare their styles and use of colors. Quite neat! I am listing them all separately. The painter in this case here is a bit odd. I ahve had a piece with this mark before that looks like JJ but since they used only numbers it must correspond to a double digit number possibly 55 in which case it is probably Franz Bernhart who worked for the factory from 1785 until 1837. The plate is in great condition with stacking wear to the yellow and blue flower of the arrangement in the well of the plate as shown but it displays nicely. The plate is marked with the under glaze blue shield mark underneath as well as the painter's mark JJ. and an impressed letter N and incised leter x into the glaze near the footring as shown. The plate is 1.75 inches tall and 9.625 inches in diameter. Please email me for more information or photos.