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CIRCA 1750, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND PRESSNUMMER 23 TO BOTH
Details
TWO MEISSEN FIGURES OF MUSICIANS
CIRCA 1750, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND PRESSNUMMER 23 TO BOTH
Modelled looking to the left and right and wearing flowered skirts, one wearing a yellow bodice and playing a violin, the other in a yellow blouse and playing the bagpipes, each seated on rocks on scroll-moulded mound bases enriched in gilding, one applied with flowers (slight chipping to extremities, bow lacking, bagpipe with pipe partially lacking and chipping to adjacent hand)
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) and 4 11/16 in. (12 cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1750, TRACES OF BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK AND PRESSNUMMER 23 TO BOTH
Modelled looking to the left and right and wearing flowered skirts, one wearing a yellow bodice and playing a violin, the other in a yellow blouse and playing the bagpipes, each seated on rocks on scroll-moulded mound bases enriched in gilding, one applied with flowers (slight chipping to extremities, bow lacking, bagpipe with pipe partially lacking and chipping to adjacent hand)
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) and 4 11/16 in. (12 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The late Mrs Meyer Sassoon
By descent to the late Mrs Derek FitzGerald, of Heathfield Park, and by descent to the present owner.
By descent to the late Mrs Derek FitzGerald, of Heathfield Park, and by descent to the present owner.
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