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Lot 185

A Meissen salt from the 'Möllendorff' service, circa 1761

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

Sold for £687.50 inc. premium

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A Meissen salt from the 'Möllendorff' service, circa 1761

En suite with the previous lot, as a gilt-edged shell on three scroll feet, painted in the centre with iron-red and gilt flowers, the rim moulded with alternating panels of flowers and trophies within gilt scrollwork below an iron-red and gilt trellis border, 10cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue

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Provenance:
Ordered by Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1761;
Given to General Joachim von Möllendorff, perhaps in 1783;
Thence by descent;
Purchased by Hermann Ball, Berlin, circa 1925;
With Heinz Reichert, Freiburg i.B.;
E.A. Titgemeyer Collection, Osnabrück, acquired from the above in 1978

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