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A DRESDEN PORCELAIN CLOCK-CASE
Circa 1880
Modelled as a broad scroll-moulded column applied with garlands and a putto scantily clad in pink drapery seated sleeping on a shell with a bottle of wine and a beaker on a shelf, the young figure flanked by two musical putti, the reverse painted with a bird on a flowering branch and scattered bouquets, surmounted by a garlanded cherub before a cluster of flowers in a bough-pot, the moulded details enriched in gilding (restoration to two corners of base and to cherub's cymbals, part of one flower detached, chips to extremities), imitation blue crossed swords mark
23in. (58.5cm.) high
Circa 1880
Modelled as a broad scroll-moulded column applied with garlands and a putto scantily clad in pink drapery seated sleeping on a shell with a bottle of wine and a beaker on a shelf, the young figure flanked by two musical putti, the reverse painted with a bird on a flowering branch and scattered bouquets, surmounted by a garlanded cherub before a cluster of flowers in a bough-pot, the moulded details enriched in gilding (restoration to two corners of base and to cherub's cymbals, part of one flower detached, chips to extremities), imitation blue crossed swords mark
23in. (58.5cm.) high