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Lot 51*

A rare Meissen oval butter dish and cover, circa 1740

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

£3,000 - £5,000

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A rare Meissen oval butter dish and cover, circa 1740

With pierced lug handles and moulded gilt bindings, painted in Kakiemon style with scattered indianische Blumen, the cover with a phoenix in flight and another perched on banded hedges issuing flowers, applied with a gilt-edged elongated scrolling handle, 13.5cm across, traces of crossed swords mark in blue, impressed 46 (small rim section of cover restuck, one lug restored) (2)

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Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 162

A closely similar butter dish is in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Erik Lassen, Davids Samling Meissen Porcelaen (1985), no. 64.

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