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Lot 175

A Meissen sea-green-ground shaped oval box and an associated cover from a toilet service, circa 1745

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

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Meissen sea-green-ground shaped oval box and an associated cover from a toilet service, circa 1745

Each reserved with gilt-edged quatrelobe cartouches depicting landscape scenes, separated by panels of gilt flowers and foliage, the finial shaped as a rose, the rim pierced four times, 16.5cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (restored rim chips) (2)

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Provenance:
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück

The box was originally a base for a pin cushion, and the cover belonged to another box from the same service, as can be seen from the toilet service preserved in Schloss Glücksburg, which includes the same forms; see Hermann Jedding, Eine Meissener Toilette-Garnitur in Schloss Glücksburg, in Keramos 130 (1990), pp. 3-16, and ills. 6 (the cover) and 10 (the base for a pin cushion). Another box and cover from the same toilet service as the present lot, formerly in the collections of Walter von Pannwitz, Berlin, and Dr. F.C. Witte, Rostock, was most recently sold from the Dr. Roy Byrnes Collection, Christie's London, 12 May 2010, lot 99.

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