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Lot 24

A Meissen Böttger stoneware octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1710-13

5 July 2018, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,875 inc. premium

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A Meissen Böttger stoneware octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1710-13

The rim of the cover and top of the finial moulded with foliate borders, 11.3cm across (small chip to rim and tip of finial) (2)

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The form is listed in the 1711 inventory of the Meissen manufactory; a closely similar polished sugar box in the Dresden porcelain collection, together with a Plaue stoneware example of the same form, are published in Johann Friedrich Böttger zum 300. Geburtstag (1982), pl. I/65. Another polished example is in the Ludwig Collection, Bamberg, R. Hanemann (pub.), Goldchinesen und Indianische Blumen (2010), no. 13, where the model is attributed to Johann Jacob Irminger.

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