Lot Essay
For a pair, see Christie's House Sale, Ken Hill, Snettisham, Norfolk, 13 September 1999, Lot 175.
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A pair of Meissen (outside-decorated) twin table-salt figures
modelled as a seated cook and companion, wearing eighteenth century dress, he stirring a pan, she holding a plucked goose, seated between shell-moulded bowls, painted to the interior with flowers, on scroll-moulded bases, blue crossed swords marks, incised C.80, Pressnummern, circa 1880 (she restored) -- 24cm. wide
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modelled as a seated cook and companion, wearing eighteenth century dress, he stirring a pan, she holding a plucked goose, seated between shell-moulded bowls, painted to the interior with flowers, on scroll-moulded bases, blue crossed swords marks, incised C.80, Pressnummern, circa 1880 (she restored) -- 24cm. wide
See illustration (2)
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