Lot Essay
Cf. A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 2000, p. 111, ill. 59 for a comparable sugar box with contemporary domed porcelain cover.
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1725-1730, MARKED WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND GOLDNUMMER 13., THE LATER FRENCH SILVER COVER WITH MAKER'S MARK WITH RAC WITHIN A LOZENGE
Details
A Meissen porcelain chinoiserie sugar box and parcel-gilt silver cover
1725-1730, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords and Goldnummer 13., the later French silver cover with maker's mark with rac within a lozenge
The compressed globular body gilt and painted in colours with a continuous scene of Oriental figures at various pursuits, e.g: boiling water, drinking tea, flanked by palm trees and further with a dog, a lion, and a multitude of tiny insects, between gilt bands, the slightly domed cover incised with strapwork, the rim embossed with a classical ovolo band, with inverted urn-finial
13.2 cm. wide
See illustration
1725-1730, marked with underglaze blue crossed swords and Goldnummer 13., the later French silver cover with maker's mark with rac within a lozenge
The compressed globular body gilt and painted in colours with a continuous scene of Oriental figures at various pursuits, e.g: boiling water, drinking tea, flanked by palm trees and further with a dog, a lion, and a multitude of tiny insects, between gilt bands, the slightly domed cover incised with strapwork, the rim embossed with a classical ovolo band, with inverted urn-finial
13.2 cm. wide
See illustration
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