CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO THREE PIECES, DREHER'S INCISED CROSS AND FOUR DOTS MARK TO STAND, PRESSNUMMER 36 TO BOX

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A MEISSEN DESK-SET
CIRCA 1735, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO THREE PIECES, DREHER'S INCISED CROSS AND FOUR DOTS MARK TO STAND, PRESSNUMMER 36 TO BOX
The shaped rectangular stand painted with figures by palaces within a shaped quatrefoil gilt cartouche with purple ombrierte gilt scrolls, diaper panels and purple panels with Sgraffito scrolls, the well with gilt diaper panels alternating with elongated cartouches enclosing vignettes, the gilt rim boldly moulded with down-turned palmettes at the corners and shells at the centres, the underside with Kakiemon flowers; the square box, sander and inkwell with vignettes within elaborate cartouches, the box cover with four vignettes and a gilt cone finial, the sander with pierced apertures, the inkwell with a recessed top and circular cover (some wear throughout, particularly to stand cartouche, box with very small rim chip, cover with two chips to underside of rim, sander with slight chip to one corner, inkwell with restored lower corner, slight chipping to footrim, minute chip to one corner, gilding of interior rim possibly re-touched, cover with two restored chips to underside of rim and replacement gilt-metal finial)
The stand 10 15/16 in. (27.8 cm.) wide (4)

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Lot Essay

A desk set with a box for sealing-wax, a sander and an inkwell (with a stand of different quatrefoil form) is in the Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida. See 'The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain' Catalogue (1984), p. 146, no. 219, where it points out the rarity of such desk-sets. Another dated example (1735) made for King Christian VI of Denmark is in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. For another example with a shaped rectangular stand, a sander and an inkwell in the Untermyer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain, Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection (London, 1956), p. 147, no. 136, pl. 90.

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