Lot Essay
Cf. the example, from the collection of Madame Nelly Hanni, sold by Christie's Geneva on 20 November 1970, lot 485
Meissen Thimbles
A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE THIMBLE painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with a continuous band of Orientals at various pursuits, seated at tables, taking tea and before vases and utensils, a child playing with a monkey and with a bird among flowering shrubs and a fence on a terrace, the biscuit upper part with indentations and the apex with a flower, the lower rim scalloped and the interior richly gilt (slight rubbing to lower rim), circa 1735
Details
A MEISSEN CHINOISERIE THIMBLE painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt with a continuous band of Orientals at various pursuits, seated at tables, taking tea and before vases and utensils, a child playing with a monkey and with a bird among flowering shrubs and a fence on a terrace, the biscuit upper part with indentations and the apex with a flower, the lower rim scalloped and the interior richly gilt (slight rubbing to lower rim), circa 1735
1.7cm. high
1.7cm. high
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's London, 2 October 1979, lot 139
Literature
Edwin F. Holmes, op. cit., col. pl. (3) between pp. 128-129