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CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1770 AND WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS
Details
Two Meissen figures of Grenadier musicians on pedestals
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1770 AND WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS
The first in a gilt peaked hat with the arms of Saxony, and in a pale-yellow and white uniform, the second in a plumed black tricorn hat and a similar uniform, each playing a drum and standing before a tree-stump on a square mound base, the pedestals with gilt-edged fielded panels of green diaper ornament, on stepped gilt-edged bases (the first with restoration to drum-sticks, the second with restoration to hat, nose, left drum-stick, left shoulder and hand, the pedestals with chipping to rim, one rim with restoration)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) and 7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1750, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, THE PEDESTALS CIRCA 1770 AND WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND DOT MARKS
The first in a gilt peaked hat with the arms of Saxony, and in a pale-yellow and white uniform, the second in a plumed black tricorn hat and a similar uniform, each playing a drum and standing before a tree-stump on a square mound base, the pedestals with gilt-edged fielded panels of green diaper ornament, on stepped gilt-edged bases (the first with restoration to drum-sticks, the second with restoration to hat, nose, left drum-stick, left shoulder and hand, the pedestals with chipping to rim, one rim with restoration)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) and 7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's London, 3rd July 1978, lot 65.
Literature
Guttmann Catalogue, nos. 123 and 124.
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