TWO MEISSEN POT-POURRI VASES and two pierced covers, the baluster vases, one with ozier moulding, painted with scattered insects in the manner of Klinger and resting on tree-stump mound bases applied with flowering branches which extend up the sides, each base with a pair of pheasants and a hound among flowers and leaves, the pierced covers with scattered insects and yellow rose finials (both with restoration to one bird's tail, one bird with slight restoration to head and another with a minute chip to beak, some restoration to branches, flowers, leaves and finials, minor chips to flowers and leaves and one ear of hound), circa 1745, the covers 19th century
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TWO MEISSEN POT-POURRI VASES and two pierced covers, the baluster vases, one with ozier moulding, painted with scattered insects in the manner of Klinger and resting on tree-stump mound bases applied with flowering branches which extend up the sides, each base with a pair of pheasants and a hound among flowers and leaves, the pierced covers with scattered insects and yellow rose finials (both with restoration to one bird's tail, one bird with slight restoration to head and another with a minute chip to beak, some restoration to branches, flowers, leaves and finials, minor chips to flowers and leaves and one ear of hound), circa 1745, the covers 19th century
22.5cm. and 23.5cm. high (4)
Lot Essay
Cf. the examples sold in these Rooms on 20 May 1991, lot 123 and 28 June 1993, lot 131