A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CUELLE AND COVER

CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, INCISED 7

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A MEISSEN ARMORIAL CUELLE AND COVER
Circa 1750, blue crossed swords mark, incised 7
The domed cover with flower finial, painted with loose bouquets of deutsche Blumen and gilt with an ombrierte cartouche enclosing the armorial device of Smith of Essex, the rim gilt with Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the body with branch handles and decorated with similar flowers
8in. (22.2cm.) wide, overall

Provenance

With The Art Exchange, New York

Lot Essay

See Meissner Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Band II, Hamburg, 1999, p. 550, fig. 367 for a plate with the same armorial and p. 660, no. 48 for an extensive discussion of this armorial device. See also anon. sale, Christie's London, 30 November 1987, lot 118 for a pair of candlesticks and anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 14 July 1998, lot 117 for a jug and cover.

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