Lot Essay
A similar sugar-box (without a lion finial) in the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by Abraham L. de Blaauwen, 'Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum' Catalogue (Amsterdam, 2000), p. 111, no. 59.
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CIRCA 1728, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BOX, TRACES OF GILDER'S NUMERAL 75. TO BOX AND COVER
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A Meissen oval sugar-box and cover
CIRCA 1728, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BOX, TRACES OF GILDER'S NUMERAL 75. TO BOX AND COVER
The finial formed as a richly gilt lion, recumbent, painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, the box with a continuous frieze of Oriental figures among trees and flowering shrubs between gilt lines, the cover with similar lesser vignettes of figures flanking the finial within a Böttger-lustre border gilt with interlocking scrolls (cover with extensive wear to gilding on finial, border and rim, box with slight wear to double line border, further very slight wear)
4 7/8 in. (12.6 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1728, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BOX, TRACES OF GILDER'S NUMERAL 75. TO BOX AND COVER
The finial formed as a richly gilt lion, recumbent, painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, the box with a continuous frieze of Oriental figures among trees and flowering shrubs between gilt lines, the cover with similar lesser vignettes of figures flanking the finial within a Böttger-lustre border gilt with interlocking scrolls (cover with extensive wear to gilding on finial, border and rim, box with slight wear to double line border, further very slight wear)
4 7/8 in. (12.6 cm.) wide
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