A MEISSEN TURQUOISE-GROUND THIMBLE painted with two harbour scenes with merchants on a quayside among packages before distant shipping and with figures in a boat pulling up the sail within gilt line ogival panels on a turquoise ground, the biscuit upper part with indentations and the apex with indianische Blumen within a circular gilt line panel, the interior richly gilt (slight rubbing to interior and lower rim), circa 1740

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A MEISSEN TURQUOISE-GROUND THIMBLE painted with two harbour scenes with merchants on a quayside among packages before distant shipping and with figures in a boat pulling up the sail within gilt line ogival panels on a turquoise ground, the biscuit upper part with indentations and the apex with indianische Blumen within a circular gilt line panel, the interior richly gilt (slight rubbing to interior and lower rim), circa 1740
1.8cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 10 November 1975, lot 33

Literature

Edwin F. Holmes, op. cit., col. pl. (3) between pp. 128-129

Lot Essay

Cf. the example, from the collection of Madame Nelly Hanni, sold by Christie's Geneva on 20 November 1970, lot 483

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