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Lot 146

A Meissen scent flask, circa 1725-30

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Meissen scent flask, circa 1725-30

Of flattened ovoid form moulded with a female mask on each side, the neck and lower body moulded with fluted bands heightened in gilding and iron-red, painted on each side with a chinoiserie scene depicting two large figures, mounted with a gilt-metal stopper attached by a chain, 9.3cm high overall

Footnotes

Provenance:
Said Marouf Collection, sold in these Rooms, 5 December 2012, lot 8

Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 23

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