Lot Essay
A cane handle of similar form with a similar lady's head is in the Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida; see 'The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain' Catalogue (1984), p. 246, no. 596.
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CIRCA 1745
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A MEISSEN GOLD-MOUNTED FRAUEN KOPF CANE-HANDLE
CIRCA 1745
The scroll handle painted with flowers and terminating in a small scroll-moulded escutcheon painted with a vignette, the stem with a continuous river landscape with figures by a monument, before a distant town with palaces and churches, above a facetted gilt-metal collar, the lady with a lace cap and a black choker with a bow (slight chipping to foot of stem under mount, sides with wear, further very slight wear)
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1745
The scroll handle painted with flowers and terminating in a small scroll-moulded escutcheon painted with a vignette, the stem with a continuous river landscape with figures by a monument, before a distant town with palaces and churches, above a facetted gilt-metal collar, the lady with a lace cap and a black choker with a bow (slight chipping to foot of stem under mount, sides with wear, further very slight wear)
4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) wide
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