CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL QUATREFOIL TUREEN AND COVER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The tureen with a moulded ovolo and strapwork border divided by shell and foliage-moulded scroll handles, the fluted lower part with four shell and foliage-moulded feet, the domed cover moulded with a diaper band divided by two shells and by two elaborate escutcheons painted and gilded with a coat-of-arms, the top applied with cauliflower florettes and flowering foliage centred by a brightly coloured artichoke finial (minute chipping to applied flowers and to underside flange of cover)
14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Gallerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, April 1972, lot 196
A Distinguished Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, sale Christie's, London, 8th July 2002, lot 39

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Lot Essay

For an armorial tureen of the same form, see Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts (Munich, 1979), p. 92, no. 152. An armorial tureen of the same form was offered by Christie's Geneva on 22nd April 1970, lot 139, and a stand from the same service is illustrated by R. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan (Munich, 1966), pl. 122, no. 496.

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