Lot Essay
For a piece of similar form from the Glücksburg toilet-service, see Hermann Jedding, Eine Meissener Toilette-Garnitur in Schloss Glücksburg, Keramos, no. 130, October 1990, p. 6-7.
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 37 TO FOOTRIM
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A MEISSEN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED TURQUOISE-GROUND SMALL QUATREFOIL BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 37 TO FOOTRIM
The sides and cover with four gilt edged quatrefoil cartouches of figures in landscapes and harbour scenes divided by gilt shell and foliage panels, the cover with a flowering branch finial, gilt line rims (some restoration to foliage of finial and rim of tureen at edge of mount, minute wear to gilt rim of cover)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1745, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMER 37 TO FOOTRIM
The sides and cover with four gilt edged quatrefoil cartouches of figures in landscapes and harbour scenes divided by gilt shell and foliage panels, the cover with a flowering branch finial, gilt line rims (some restoration to foliage of finial and rim of tureen at edge of mount, minute wear to gilt rim of cover)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) wide
Provenance
Walter Von Pannwitz Collection, Munich, sale Hugo Helbing, Munich, 24th-25th October 1905, lot no. 376, pl. 39
Dr. F.C. Witte Collection, Rostock, sale Sotheby's, London, 2nd June 2005, lot 20
Dr. F.C. Witte Collection, Rostock, sale Sotheby's, London, 2nd June 2005, lot 20
Exhibited
Berlin, Kunstgewerbe Museum, Europäisches Porzellan des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, 1904, no. 177
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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