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CIRCA 1724, BLUE K.P.M. OVER CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 46. TO BOTH PIECES
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A MEISSEN OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1724, BLUE K.P.M. OVER CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 46. TO BOTH PIECES
The box of squat bombé form, painted in the style associated with Melhorn, one side with a figure ploughing a field, the other with a river landscape, within elongated quatrefoil gilt cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and gilt and ombrierte red scrolls, divided at the ends by indianische Blumen, the domed cover with a river landscape with a thatched cottage and figures in a boat, within an oval iron-red scroll and lappet cartouche enclosed by a gilt border of interlocking scrolls and flowerheads, gilt band rim (glazed frit to rim and rim of cover, minor wear to gilding)
4¾in. (12 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1724, BLUE K.P.M. OVER CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 46. TO BOTH PIECES
The box of squat bombé form, painted in the style associated with Melhorn, one side with a figure ploughing a field, the other with a river landscape, within elongated quatrefoil gilt cartouches with Böttger-lustre panels and gilt and ombrierte red scrolls, divided at the ends by indianische Blumen, the domed cover with a river landscape with a thatched cottage and figures in a boat, within an oval iron-red scroll and lappet cartouche enclosed by a gilt border of interlocking scrolls and flowerheads, gilt band rim (glazed frit to rim and rim of cover, minor wear to gilding)
4¾in. (12 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 12 November 1984, lot 172
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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