PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NEIL AND SHARON PHILLIPS
(LOTS 318-332, 370)
A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN ASPARAGUS BOX AND COVER AND FAYENCE ARTICHOKE BOX AND COVER
19TH CENTURY
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A CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN ASPARAGUS BOX AND COVER AND FAYENCE ARTICHOKE BOX AND COVER
19th century
Both naturalistically modeled and colored, the bunch of asparagus tied with raffia; together with a metal-mounted walnut trifle box and hinged cover, late 19th/early 20th century, blue mark
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) long, the asparagus box; 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) high, the artichoke box (5)
拍品專文
See Property from the Estate of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Christie's, New York, 18 March 2005, lot 287 for a similar asparagus box and cover marked with the blue crossed swords of the Meissen factory.