A MEISSEN PATE-SUR-PATE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, IMPRESSED 20, INCISED O.

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A MEISSEN PATE-SUR-PATE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
Late 19th/early 20th century, blue crossed swords mark, impressed 20, incised O.
The hinged cover with central roundel of a putto tossing flowers on a peach ground, withing a band of alternating dark and light blue shaped lappets enriched with pâte-sur-pâte flowers and foliage heightened with gilt all on a pale celadon ground with further flowers, the interior with a flower spray
6¼ in. (16 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See Otto Walcha, Meissener Porzellan, Dresden, 1973, color plate of no. 203, a celedon-ground covered jar with similar pate-sur-pate decoration of a putto. Also see Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, London, 1992, p. 108, fig. 134 for a similar bonbonnière probably made between 1880 and 1914.

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