A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE THIMBLE painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with a band of chinoiserie figures, playing musical instruments, beside a bird-cage and with a bird lure among utensils and flowering plants on a terrace below a gilt band, the upper part with indentations and the interior richly gilt, circa 1735

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A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE THIMBLE painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with a band of chinoiserie figures, playing musical instruments, beside a bird-cage and with a bird lure among utensils and flowering plants on a terrace below a gilt band, the upper part with indentations and the interior richly gilt, circa 1735
2.3cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 16 November 1975, lot 59

Literature

Edwin F. Holmes, op. cit., col. pl. (3) between pp. 128-129

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