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Lot 162

A pair of Meissen quadrangular bottles, circa 1730-35

14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,875 inc. premium

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A pair of Meissen quadrangular bottles, circa 1730-35

Painted in Kakiemon style with flowers issuing from banded hedges and stylised rockwork, 21cm high, traces of crossed swords marks in blue, impressed MB and M (one restuck through neck) (2)

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Provenance:
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

A similar pair of bottles with Former's mark M is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (A.L den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), no. 144, and another single bottle with Former's mark MB. was sold by Christie's London, 6 February 1978, lot 199, and again by Sotheby's London, 24 November 1998, lot 24.

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