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Lot Essay
For a pair, see Christie's House Sale, Ken Hill, Snettisham, Norfolk, 13 September 1999, Lot 175.
Details
A Meissen twin table-salt figure
modelled as a cook, wearing eighteenth century dress, seated holding a plucked goose, seated between shell-moulded bowls, painted to the interior with sprays of flowers and lesser sprigs, on scoll-moulded base, blue crossed swords mark, incised C.81., circa 1880 (restored) -- 25cm. wide
See illustration
modelled as a cook, wearing eighteenth century dress, seated holding a plucked goose, seated between shell-moulded bowls, painted to the interior with sprays of flowers and lesser sprigs, on scoll-moulded base, blue crossed swords mark, incised C.81., circa 1880 (restored) -- 25cm. wide
See illustration
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