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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ce BCA, post: 3717044, member: 18716&quot;]Not so common for this period, and it&#039;s far more likely to be a copy piece.&nbsp; The Meissen mark is very easy to fake, and there are far more blue cross sword pieces on the market that are copies and/or fakes than the real thing.&nbsp; The painting and gilding look very rushed on this piece.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at it in detail, it may be that there was another factory mark underneath and the copyist scrubbed it off and painted a Meissen mark before re-firing with the decoration and top glaze.&nbsp; There seems to be a halo of lighter ceramic under the mark.&nbsp; That certainly used to happen as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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