LATE 19TH CENTURY, MARKED WITH SMALL BLUE CROSSES OR PSEUDO-MEISSEN MARKS

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A pair of Meissen-pattern quadrupod oval salts
Late 19th century, marked with small blue crosses or pseudo-Meissen marks
After a silver model in the Régence style, gilt and painted in colours, the stepped flaring bowl decorated with sprays of Indianische Blumen, the lower part gadrooned, upheld by four female mascaroons (Frauenköpfe) wearing sgraffito-decorated purple garments, raised upon four scroll feet (one foot restored)
8.5cm. high
See illustration (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, Porzellan Kunstgewerbemuseum Köln (Köln 1980), p.193 for an illustration of the scrolled feet with female mascaroons of a tureen (circa 1745) related to the tureen of the Sulkowsky service (circa 1735).

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