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Lot 27*

A Meissen scent flask, circa 1735

5 December 2012, 13:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Meissen scent flask, circa 1735

Of flattened octagonal form, painted on each side with a chinoiserie vignette on a scrollwork bracket, and a similar narrow bracket with a single figure to the narrow sides, formal gilt borders, gilt-metal mount to the neck, 8cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue

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Provenance:
The Property of the Viscount Boyd of Merton, sold by Christie's London, 6 December 2004, lot 418

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 50

A similar Meissen scent flask is in the collection of the Duca di Martina Museum, Naples, inv. no. 2697.

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