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A rare Meissen brush back circa 1745-50
25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,920 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA rare Meissen brush back
circa 1745-50
Moulded with a trellis pattern enclosing flower heads, reserved with gilt-edged foliate cartouches enclosing river and harbour scenes, pierced around the rim, 11.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Moulded with a trellis pattern enclosing flower heads, reserved with gilt-edged foliate cartouches enclosing river and harbour scenes, pierced around the rim, 11.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired in 1972
Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, II, no. 95
Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009
Although this shape was probably conceived as a brush back, a similar example, recorded in 18th-century inventories of the Margraves of Baden, shows that they could be put to other uses, such as the base for a silk bag (Sotheby's Baden-Baden, 6 October 1995, lot 811).
