A COPENHAGEN THIMBLE painted with three flower-sprays above a gilt line and below a green ground upper part with indentations, the interior unglazed (some loss to enamels on flowers and rubbing to lower rim), circa 1780

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Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 10 November 1975, lot 107

Literature

Edwin F. Holmes, op. cit., p. 75

Lot Essay

Documentaion of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain manufactory contains an order book for 1778 which includes about one dozen thimbles. A work list dated 1779 also refers to other thimbles. Examples are in the Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen and the the Royal Porcelain Factory's own collection

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