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CIRCA 1735
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A MEISSEN YELLOW-GROUND THIMBLE
CIRCA 1735
Of conventional tapering form, painted by C.F. Herold with three chinoiserie vignettes of figures at various pursuits within dark-brown and gilt-line elongated quatrefoil cartouches between gilt lines, the upper dimpled part unglazed, the interior richly gilt (small area of wear to interior)
Approximately 1 in. (2.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1735
Of conventional tapering form, painted by C.F. Herold with three chinoiserie vignettes of figures at various pursuits within dark-brown and gilt-line elongated quatrefoil cartouches between gilt lines, the upper dimpled part unglazed, the interior richly gilt (small area of wear to interior)
Approximately 1 in. (2.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's Geneva, 10th November 1975, lot 2
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1976.
With A. Torre, from whom it was acquired in 1976.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.