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Lot 178

A very rare Meissen butter box and cover from the 'Christie-Miller' service, circa 1740

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

Sold for £34,850 inc. premium

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A very rare Meissen butter box and cover from the 'Christie-Miller' service, circa 1740

Superbly painted with quatrelobe landscape panels alternating in puce camaieu and polychrome enamels, reserved against a gilt trellis band, the cover with two similar polychrome scenes enclosed by a band of brown-edged gilt foliate scrollwork, 11.9cm across handles, impressed 23 (2)

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Provenance:
The late S.R. Christie-Miller, sold Sotheby's London, 7 July 1970, lot 22;
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück

Sixty-one pieces of this service, including only two such butter boxes and covers, said to have been purchased by Samuel Christie-Miller in 1840 from a member of the Orleans family, were sold by his descendants in 1970. Only a handful of other pieces from the service are recorded.

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