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Lot 65

Two Meissen salts, circa 1745-50

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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Two Meissen salts, circa 1745-50

Moulded with 'Gotzkowsky Relief' of flower panels alternating with sprays of finely painted Holzschnittblumen, scattered insects to the top and gilt crosshatch borders to the rims, on gilt shell-shaped feet, 18cm wide, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (minor chips to feet and minor rubbing) (2)

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Several services decorated in this style were made during the second half of the 1740s, including in 1747 a dessert service for Louis XV and an extensive dinner and dessert service for the Marquis d'Argenson; the description of the latter corresponds to the decoration on the present lot - see S. Schwartz/J. Munger, Gifts of Meissen Porcelain to the French Court, 1728-50, in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2008), p. 153.

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