A MEISSEN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED MIRROR FRAME

LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MODELLED BY S.K.A. RINGLER AFTER E. ANDRESEN

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A MEISSEN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED MIRROR FRAME
LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MODELLED BY S.K.A. RINGLER AFTER E. ANDRESEN
Of cartouche-shape surmounted by an elaborate floral bouquet, flanked by putti, the enriched rocaille-moulded frame applied allover with flowering branches with four birds and two further putti at the lower corners, flanked by s-shaped candelarms supporting foliate nozzles and drip-pans, mounted on a wooden back
29 in. (73.6 cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

See an anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 29 September 2005, lot 132 for a related example (lacking candelarms). Also see K. Krockenberger, Edles Meissner Porzellan aus 3 Jahrhunderten, Winnenden, 2002, p. 270 for a related larger mirror dated 1886. Ludwig II, (1845-1886), the King of Bavaria, commissioned related Meissen objects and mirrors for Schloss Linderhof, his extravagant Second Rococo Revival abode in Upper Bavaria, built in 1878.

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