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Lot 92

A Meissen figural potpourri vase and cover, circa 1755

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

£800 - £1,200

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A Meissen figural potpourri vase and cover, circa 1755

Modelled as a baluster vase on a rockwork base, moulded with a trellis ground, the front reserved with a trefoil panel painted with butterflies and insects, the shoulder pierced, each side applied with leafy flowering branches and a monkey holding a flower on the front, the base with a seated woman and putto flanking a flower basket, applied with leafy flowering branches and modelled with gilt-edged scrollwork around the edge, on four scroll feet, the pierced cover with a flower finial, 32.4cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some damage and restoration) (2)

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A closely similar model was sold by Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 5 February 1918, lot 23.

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