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A rare Meissen bell and an associated stand, circa 1735 image 1
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Lot 66

A rare Meissen bell and an associated stand, circa 1735

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

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A rare Meissen bell and an associated stand, circa 1735

The bell painted with three European landscape and Kauffahrtei scenes within gilt quatrelobe cartouches filled with Böttger lustre and egded with iron-red scrolls, small figures on gilt scrollwork pedestals between each cartouche, the handle mounted with a gilt metal pinecone finial, the interior with a gilt border and the porcelain clapper with a continuous puce camaieu landscape, the shaped square stand painted with similar cartouches edged in iron-red and puce scrollwork, branches of indianische Blumen to the underside, the bell: 10cm high, the stand: 15cm wide, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to the stand (2)

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Provenance:
Anon. sale, Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 16th November 1978, lot 97;
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 8 July 2002, lot 26 (the stand);
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot (the bell)

Another table bell of slightly different shape but with similar decoration is in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, illustrated in Dr. Erika Pauls-Eisenbeiss, German Porcelain of the 18th Century Vol. I (1972), p.465.

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