CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 27 TO STAND

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A MEISSEN QUATREFOIL TUREEN, COVER AND STAND
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 27 TO STAND
The ozier-moulded ground reserved with quatrefoil recessed panels painted en camaïeu rose with battle scenes after J.P. Rugendas within gilt and puce-line borders, the ground with scattered holzschnitt Blumen and insects below a border painted and gilt with ropetwist ornament, the cover with a flower finial (minor chipping to finial and one leaf restuck, shallow chip to underisde rim of cover)
The stand 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

For an almost identical tureen, cover and stand, see the example sold by Christie's Geneva on 14th November 1983, lot 147. A similar tureen with polychrome decoration (from the Schneider Collection) is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), fig. 642.

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