Sale 6607
London
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8 July 2002
Price realised
GBP 1,912
Estimate
A Meissen arched rectangular yellow-ground teacaddy and cover Circa 1735 Painted with Orientals, one side with a family before a palm tree, the other side with a couple under a parasol beside a table with vases, on terraces with flowering plants within quatrefoil gilt line cartouches, the shoulder with indianische Blumen, the circular slightly domed cover with two similar panels and gilt pine cone finial (finial restuck, slight rubbing to gilding) 4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Hoff Antiques, London
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