A PAIR OF MEISSEN SALTS modelled as a Turk and companion (facing left and right, he with a plumed turban and she with a flowered head-dress, both wearing flowered robes, coloured predominantly in green and lilac and with blue shoes with red rosettes, seated on rocky bases holding shell-moulded bowls painted with flowers on the interiors (feathers restored), blue crossed swords marks, one with cancellation, Pressnummer 15, incised 777 and 1218 painted numbers 15, circa 1880

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN SALTS modelled as a Turk and companion (facing left and right, he with a plumed turban and she with a flowered head-dress, both wearing flowered robes, coloured predominantly in green and lilac and with blue shoes with red rosettes, seated on rocky bases holding shell-moulded bowls painted with flowers on the interiors (feathers restored), blue crossed swords marks, one with cancellation, Pressnummer 15, incised 777 and 1218 painted numbers 15, circa 1880
6¾in. (17cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. K. Butler, Meissner Porzellanplastick Des 18. Jahrhunderts, no. 103, for a 1746 example of the female figure, in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

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