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Lot 24*

A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted needle case (etui), circa 1760

3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen gilt-metal-mounted needle case (etui), circa 1760

Painted with exotic birds within flowers and trellis and insects, each end with a bird in flight, 12.3cm, red-painted MAK inventory number Ke 7532

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Provenance:
Heinrich Rothberger Collection, Vienna;
Offered by Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 18-19 November 1938, lot 532;
Purchased by the Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum (later Museum für Angewandte Kunst), Vienna, from the auctioneers Adolf Weinmüller, Vienna, in October 1939 (inv. no. Ke7532);
Restituted to Heinrich Rothberger's niece, Mrs Bertha Gutmann, in 2006;
Thence by descent

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