LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED MIRROR FRAME
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Of cartouche-shape surmounted by an elaborate floral bouquet in the shape of a crown above a small trefoil mirror flanked by putti, the enriched rocaille-molded frame applied allover with flowering branches, butterflies and moths, with four birds and two further putti at the lower corners, mounted on a wooden back
52¾in. (134cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Ludwig II, (1845-1886), the King of Bavaria, commissioned related Meissen objects and mirrors for Schloss Linderhof, his extravagant second rococo revival abode in upper Bavaria, built 1878. See K. Krockenberger, Edles Meissner Porzellan aus 3 Jarhunderten, Winnenden, 2002, p. 270 for a similar mirror dated 1886; also compare Christie's, New York, 11 April 2007, lot 195.

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