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A MEISSEN OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
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A MEISSEN OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER

CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, IMPRESSED SQUARE TO FOOTRIM AND IMPRESSED THREE DOTS MARK, GILDER'S 10. TO BOTH PIECES

Fermé10 June 2010

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A MEISSEN OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER
CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, IMPRESSED SQUARE TO FOOTRIM AND IMPRESSED THREE DOTS MARK, GILDER'S 10. TO BOTH PIECES
Each side of the box painted with merchants and boats in estuary scenes within elongated ogival quatrefoil gilt cartouches edged with red scrolls and with purple Sgraffito panels at the sides, the ends with indianische Blumen, the domed cover with a recumbent gilt dog finial above two extensive scenes with merchants on shores before distant boats and a galleon within a gilt interlocking scroll and flowerhead border and gilt band rim (slight wear to finial, minute flaking to gilt band borders)
4¾ in. (12 cm.) wide

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 October 1973, lot 78

Note du spécialiste

For an oval dish from the same service, see Dieter Hoffmeister, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (Hamburg, 1999), Vol. I, pp. 168-169, no. 85, where he notes the similarity of the gilt border to the borders on the 'Queen Marie of Hanover Service' in the Wark Collection (the pieces also bear gilder's 10 marks). The service is illustrated by Mary Campbell Gristina et al., The Wark Collection, Early Meissen Porcelain (Jacksonville, 1984), col. pl. 25 and nos. 157-170.