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A rare Meissen cylindrical butter box and cover, circa 1725-30 image 1
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Lot 162

A rare Meissen cylindrical butter box and cover, circa 1725-30

7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A rare Meissen cylindrical butter box and cover, circa 1725-30

With two pierced lug handles, painted in the manner of J.E. Stadler in polychrome enamels with landscape vignettes with indianische Blumen, the box with moulded bands painted underglaze-blue and red, the cover with an underglaze-blue border with gilt scrollwork to the rim and finial heightened in underglaze-blue, gilding and iron-red, 11cm across handles, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to inside of box, incised x (rim section of box restuck, haircrack to side of box) (2)

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Provenance:
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück

A similar circular butter box and cover from the Henle Collection was sold by Sotheby's London, 25 November 1997, lot 118.

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