Lot 247
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A MEISSEN WHITE OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN-STAND, the border moulded with putti masks and bows suspending garlands of flowers within a pierced lobed rim moulded with flowerheads, the handles with foliage scroll moulding (slight scratching to surface), blue crossed swords mark and incised H, circa 1760

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A MEISSEN WHITE OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN-STAND, the border moulded with putti masks and bows suspending garlands of flowers within a pierced lobed rim moulded with flowerheads, the handles with foliage scroll moulding (slight scratching to surface), blue crossed swords mark and incised H, circa 1760
43cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Ernst Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan, p. 241 for a plate with similar moulding from the 'Vestunenservice' made for Frederick the Great, this piece was probably intended for this service but due to the firecracks and smoked glaze was never decorated

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