Live Auction 2695The Opulent Eye
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED TWO-LIGHT MIRROR FRAME
Lot 326 Property from a Western Collection

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED TWO-LIGHT MIRROR FRAME

LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MODELED BY S.K.A. RINGLER AFTER E. ANDRESEN

Closed18 April 2013

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED TWO-LIGHT MIRROR FRAME
LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MODELED BY S.K.A. RINGLER AFTER E. ANDRESEN
Of cartouche-shape surmounted by an elaborate floral bouquet, flanked by putti, the enriched rocaille-molded frame applied allover with flowering branches with birds and further putti, flanked by s-shaped candlearms, mounted on a wooden back
29 in. (73.6 cm.) high (3)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 October 2006, lot 90.

Specialist note

See Christie's, London, 29 September 2005, lot 132 for a related example. Also see K. Krockenberger, Edles Meissner Porzellan aus 3 Jahrhunderten, Winnenden, 2002, p. 270 for a related larger mirror dated 1886. 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 in 1878.