CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BASE, PRESSNUMMER 26 TO BASE AND COVER
Details
A MEISSEN OVAL TWO-HANDLED TUREEN AND COVER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BASE, PRESSNUMMER 26 TO BASE AND COVER
With elaborate pierced scroll handles, painted with European landscape and harbour scenes within elaborate quatrefoil gilt scroll and trellis cartouches with iron-red and purple scrolls between sprays of indianische Blumen, the high domed cover with an acanthus-moulded finial, broad gilt band rims (crack to base extending up one side of tureen, cover cracked across with small associated loss to inner flange, underside with filled rivet holes, slight wear to gilding of cover)
13 in. (33 cm.) high
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BASE, PRESSNUMMER 26 TO BASE AND COVER
With elaborate pierced scroll handles, painted with European landscape and harbour scenes within elaborate quatrefoil gilt scroll and trellis cartouches with iron-red and purple scrolls between sprays of indianische Blumen, the high domed cover with an acanthus-moulded finial, broad gilt band rims (crack to base extending up one side of tureen, cover cracked across with small associated loss to inner flange, underside with filled rivet holes, slight wear to gilding of cover)
13 in. (33 cm.) high
Provenance
The Late Robert Lehman Collection, sale Sotheby's, New York, 25th October 2002, lot 1033
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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Dominic Simpson