Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN VASE EMBLEMATIC OF WINTER
Lot 285 Ceramics from the Collection of Marjorie West

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN VASE EMBLEMATIC OF WINTER

CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BASE

Closed23 October 2018

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN VASE EMBLEMATIC OF WINTER
CIRCA 1740, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK TO BASE
Applied with a robin perched amongst pine cones and trailing ivy, painted with scattered insects, molded icicles around the neck
11 ½ in. (29.3 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1973, lot 57.
Important Meissen Porcelain from the Collection of Marian and Michael Sabee; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2006, lot 198.

Specialist note

Compare the example sold in the Property of Lt. Col. W. Forbes of Callendar C.B.E., Christie's, London, 28 October 1963, lot 156.