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A Meissen group of the good mother
19TH CENTURY, WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS WITH DOTTED HILTS, 18. IN RED OVERGLAZE, PRESSNUMMERN E69. AND 50
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A Meissen group of the good mother
19th century, with underglaze blue crossed swords with dotted hilts, 18. in red overglaze, Pressnummern E69. and 50
(Die gute Mutter) after a model by Michel Victor Acier, gilt and painted in colours, modelled as a mother seated in a fauteuil, a young boy with a hat hanging over her shoulder and touching her chin, on her lap a toddler wearing a turban hat with feathers and throwing playing cards around, beside the chair another boy seated on a stool and holding playing cards, all wearing floral-patterned 18th century attire, raised on oval foliage rockwork base (minute chips)
22cm high
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Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.
Lot Essay
Cf. O. Walcha, Meissner Porzellan (Dresden 1973), ill.175
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