Of broad saucer shape and impressive size. Beautifully decorated with a central reserve of two scholars in a landscape setting, surrounded by reserves of flowering plants, deer, and mythical animals- all symbolic of scholarship, beauty, good fortune, and long life. Of particularly fine quality.
Diameter: 18.5 inches (47 cm.) in diameter
A virtually identical Plate from the collection of Augustus the Strong is in the Zwinger Museum, Dresen. Another is inthe Victoria & Albert Museum, London