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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
See illustration (roomsetting)
19th Century
64 cm high
See illustration (roomsetting)