A FRENCH ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN DUCK TUREEN AND COVER

THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS MID-19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN DUCK TUREEN AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS MID-19TH CENTURY
Finely painted in polychrome enamels, on a rockwork and foliate cast base, damages and restorations
9 in. (22.5 cm.) high; 11½ in. (29 cm.) long

Provenance

H.J. Joel, Esq., Grosvenor Square, London, sold Christie's London, 17 April 1980, lot 91.

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Lot Essay

The present box and cover may be similar to the butter box referred to in Kaendler's Taxa 1740-48 as '1 Butter Büchsse in Gestalt eines Ent-Vogels vor Se. Hoch-Reichs Gräffl. Excell. den Herrn Obristen de Brühl nach Bonn. 3 Thlr.', see Carl Albiker, Die Meissner Porzellantiere im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 1959, p. 18, no. 146 and pl. 146 for a pair of ormolu-mounted boxes from the Mannheimer collection in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The pair is also illustrated in Abraham L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2000, p. 413, no. 301.

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