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CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE DECORATION VERY SLIGHTLY LATER
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A MEISSEN HAUSMALEREI OCTAGONAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE DECORATION VERY SLIGHTLY LATER
Gilt at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop, the bombé lower part with vignettes of figures in landscapes within scroll cartouches, the canted corners with foliage strapwork and husks, below a scalloped gilt band border edged with C-scrolls and husks, the domed cover with vignettes divided by panels of strapwork below an octagonal knop finial, within a similar border and broad gilt band rim (small area of wear to edge of one panel and border on cover, slight wear to finial)
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1725, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE DECORATION VERY SLIGHTLY LATER
Gilt at Augsburg in the Seuter workshop, the bombé lower part with vignettes of figures in landscapes within scroll cartouches, the canted corners with foliage strapwork and husks, below a scalloped gilt band border edged with C-scrolls and husks, the domed cover with vignettes divided by panels of strapwork below an octagonal knop finial, within a similar border and broad gilt band rim (small area of wear to edge of one panel and border on cover, slight wear to finial)
4½ in. (11.4 cm.) wide
Provenance
With Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1970.
Literature
Siegfreid Ducret, Meissner Porzellan bemalt in Ausburg, 1718 bis um 1750 (Brunswick, 1971), Vol. I, p. 244, pl. 326.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.