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A MONUMENTAL MEISSEN PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED MIRROR FRAME
Lot 288

A MONUMENTAL MEISSEN PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED MIRROR FRAME

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 May 2021

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GBP 22,500

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A MONUMENTAL 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 mirror flanked by putti, the rocaille-moulded frame applied with flowering branches and butterflies, with four birds and two further putti, with a candle sconce to each side, mounted on a wood back
67 ½ in. (171.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

See K. Krockenberger, Edles Meissner Porzellan aus 3 Jarhunderten, Winnenden, 2002, p. 270 for a similar 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 1878. For a similar example see the example sold by Christie's, New York, 11 April 2007, lot 195.