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Lot 81*

A Meissen snail pot and cover, circa 1747

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

£2,000 - £3,000

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A Meissen snail pot and cover, circa 1747

Modelled by J.J. Kaendler, the shell and cover painted with scattered flowers and surmounted by a flower finial, the base moulded with leaves and shaded in green, 11.5cm long, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (very minor restoration) (2)

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Provenance:
Giampaolo Lukacs Collection, Rome, sold by Sotheby's Milan, 18 April 2007, lot 113

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 143

Kaendler's work records (Arbeitsberichte) for April 1747 record: 'Etliche Schnecken Häußlein Zu Schnecken Töpffgen Poußiret [moulded several snail shells for the snail pots] (Die Arbeitsberichte des Meissener Porzellanmodelleurs Johann Joachim Kaendler 1706-1775 (2002), p. 118).

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