Sword mark, predominantly 1969 year mark, 1st choice. Design: shape 1969/1979 by Ludwig Zepner (1931-2010); decor 1969/1971 by Heinz Werner (1928-2019).

Under and on-glaze blue painting, polychrome painting, gold and platinum decoration.

21parts. Forms "round of flowers" and "large section". Surrounded by delicate, watercolor blue floral bands depicting characters and animals from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Hairline crack in 1 cup handle.

The decor "Midsummer Night's Dream" is, as with "Thousand and One Nights", a design by Heinz Werner for the forms of Ludwig Zepner, which was originally conceived for the service 'Blütenreigen' of 1969. In this case, William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" served as the literary model for the imaginative world of figures that cavort between fragrant clouds of blue blossoms on the service pieces. Werner's décor reflects the cheerful and light-hearted mood of the comedy, which leaves the viewer in no doubt about the story's good ending right from the start. As a setting, he suggests the enchanted forest near Athens, where large parts of the plot surrounding the love turmoil take place. There, the elf king Oberon and his wife Titania rule over a fantastic dream world populated by fairies, elves and forest spirits. Accompanied by small flowers, insects and forest animals, these float in undefined spaces on the porcelain. The concrete interior situations with multi-figured scenes that Werner conceived with the help of the curtain motif in "One Thousand and One Nights" give way to a completely new formal language | Addendum 21.06.23: instead of hairline crack on 1 cup; hairline crack on 2 cup handles.

Literature : Detailed description in exhibition catalog: Meissen Contours (1991), pp. 76f.and 243ff.; Reinheckel (1989), p. 193; Keisch (1976), p. 45.