A Wrisbergholzen heraldic lion sejant salt-cellar

CIRCA 1755

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A Wrisbergholzen heraldic lion sejant salt-cellar
Circa 1755
Painted in grand feu colours, the blue-maned lion holding a ribbed basin, on a mound base (broken through base and restuck, slight chip to base and slight glaze flaking), WR monogram in manganese and painter's mark H
7in. (17.7cm.) high
Provenance
Otto Blohm, no. 987

Lot Essay

A similar figure, in the author's collection, is illustrated by Otto Reisebieter, op. cit., fig. 250

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