The lady whipped out of her bag this rather wonky white plate. Looks very unpromising but when you turn it around, and you see the painting on the plate, you realize this is very special. Now, the first thing is, this was probably decorated not at meissen. It was made at meissen and then almost certainly it was decorated outside. It is an exquisitely painted image. The quality that comes out of meissen is princely. There was something very specific about the color scheme of this plate. If you look closely at it, heres red, black and green. And this is a scheme we associate with one particular painter. And i told her this was almost certainly from the workshops of a man called meyer, who painted in the town of presnitz. Its almost an extraordinary conundrum that in the first phases of a new art within a few years it reaches the height that it never reaches in decades or even centuries afterwards. So were looking at pcelain painting, already by 1725, as good as it will ever get. There is
Ballymore Schoolhouse gardens in north Wexford will open to the public in support of Hope Cancer Support Services on Saturday, May 25, Sunday, May 26, Saturday, June 1, Sunday, June 2 and Monday, June 3.