A MEISSEN (MARCOLINI) POT-POURRI VASE AND PIERCED COVER after the model by M.V. Acier, of urn shape with foliage-moulded gilt-edged angular handles and oak-leaf wreath finial and rims, painted with bouquets, the cover, stem and foot with flower-sprays and the foot and top rim with gilt ovolo ornament (minute chipping to handles and foot), blue crossed swords and star mark, Pressmmern 55 and 3 and incised H20, circa 1780

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A MEISSEN (MARCOLINI) POT-POURRI VASE AND PIERCED COVER after the model by M.V. Acier, of urn shape with foliage-moulded gilt-edged angular handles and oak-leaf wreath finial and rims, painted with bouquets, the cover, stem and foot with flower-sprays and the foot and top rim with gilt ovolo ornament (minute chipping to handles and foot), blue crossed swords and star mark, Pressmmern 55 and 3 and incised H20, circa 1780
20 cm. high

Provenance

Dyson Perrins Museum, Worcester
The Late Leonard Gold, sale Christie's, 22 June 1992, lot 133

Lot Essay

Cf. Ingelore Menzhausen, Alt-Meissner Porzellan in Dresden, no. 150, for an example with monochrome decoration

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