Nuremberg plate with wheel throwing peacock Faience, paste blue glaze. Cobalt blue hot-fire decoration. A stylised peacock in a landscape in the centre, surrounded by a fourfold repeating radial decoration of cartouches with fruit baskets and birds, crowned by vases and framed by blossoms and lilac leaves. Leaf and dot decoration on the underside. One fine hairline crack. Blue whip mark. D. 35.6 cm. Cf./Lit.: Silvia Glaser "Nürnberger Fayencen. Geschichte und Erzeugnisse einer Manufaktur in der Reichsstadt", Nuremberg 2017, cat. no. 232. Provenance: Dissolution of an important German private collection - Part II. A German Nuremberg light blue glazed blue and white faience dish with peacock. One slight hairline crack. Manufacturer's mark. Nuremberg. Circa 1720-1770.