A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN EWER REPRESENTING 'DIE GESCHICHTE VOM MEER', the flattened bulbous body painted in colours and modelled in relief with horses and mermaids arising from the wild waves, trading- vessels to the background, the shouldered neck painted with butterflies and applied with the figure of Neptune seated on a shell, the upper part shaped as a shell and applied with a putto holding a scrolling handle composed of seaweed bound together by a pink ribbon, the pedestal base moulded in relief with blue-tongued fishes on a green seaweed ground (laurel wreath Neptune, tail mermaid and ears horses damaged) crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 320 and 46

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A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN EWER REPRESENTING 'DIE GESCHICHTE VOM MEER', the flattened bulbous body painted in colours and modelled in relief with horses and mermaids arising from the wild waves, trading- vessels to the background, the shouldered neck painted with butterflies and applied with the figure of Neptune seated on a shell, the upper part shaped as a shell and applied with a putto holding a scrolling handle composed of seaweed bound together by a pink ribbon, the pedestal base moulded in relief with blue-tongued fishes on a green seaweed ground (laurel wreath Neptune, tail mermaid and ears horses damaged) crossed swords mark, Pressnummern 320 and 46
19th Century
64 cm high

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