CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A MEISSEN TAPERING BOX AND COVER FROM THE GLÜCKSBERG TOILET-SERVICE
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The box of shaped circular section, with four vertical convex gilt panels with white flowerheads, scrolls and husks, divided by four slender convex panels painted with vignettes of figures in landscapes, two with monuments and two with classical buildings, supported by gilt panels with shells and flanked by narrow vertical concave bands of gilt meandering scrolls, on a stepped shaped circular gilt foot, the domed cover similarly decorated with panels radiating from a flowering green branch finial (some minor wear to gilt rims, further minute wear, box with crack to base, footrim and side, cover with restoration to finial and area below it, chipping to terminals)
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon., sale Galerie Jürg Stuker, Berne, 1978, lot 228.

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Lot Essay

This box forms part the extensive toilet service possibly supplied to the Grand Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, although it is also possible that the service could have been in the possession of the Kings of Denmark. Schloss Glücksburg was in the possession of the Danish throne until 1871, when it came into the possession of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein as a result of the German-Danish war. The Duke brought furnishings from Schloss Ballenstedt with him, and it is more probable that the toilet service came to the castle via the Duke. For a discussion of the service, see Hermann Jedding, 'Eine Meissener Toilette-Garnitur in Schloss Glücksburg', Keramos No. 130, October 1990, pp. 3-16. Several pieces still survive at Schloss Glücksburg, other pieces are in the Kunstgewerbe museum in Cologne and others formerly in the Kramarsky Collection, were sold by Christie's New York. An oval box was offered by Sotheby's London on 5th April 2002, lot 58, and a brush-handle was sold in these Rooms on 8th July 2002, lot 104.

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