A Meissen armorial double-walled recticulated box and cover from the Jubiläumsservice

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A Meissen armorial double-walled recticulated box and cover from the Jubiläumsservice

CIRCA 1860, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 148, INCISED B 136

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A Meissen armorial double-walled recticulated box and cover from the Jubiläumsservice
CIRCA 1860, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, PRESSNUMMER 148, INCISED B 136
Designed by E.A. Leuteritz, the reticulated box painted with harbour and town scenes on cartouche-shaped reserves, flanked by elaborate mermaid terminals, further applied with four putti holding a drapery and flower-encrustation, the interior richly gilt, on four scroll feet, the pierced, stepped dome surmounted by a beaded crown on a tasselled cushion flanked by two putti, with panels painted with purple landscapes and escutcheons with figures, the underside of the cover with Indianischen Blumen in slight relief (plumes on figural handles restored)
19.4 cm. high (2)

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Sale room notice

Please note the three plumes of the headdress of both handles have been restored.

Lot Essay

The Jubiläumsservice of 1860 was ordered to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Meissen factory. It was composed of new forms which were to be displayed as part of a table decoration along side forms originally designed for the so-called Krönungsservice of 1733.
Ernst August Leuteritz was born in 1818 near Meissen. He was engaged as a modeller in 1846. From 1849 to 1886 he held the post of manager and top modeller. K. Berling, Meissen China, New York, 1972, p. 86 states 'During these many years he did great service to the factory by his extraordinary activity and skilfullness'.

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