A Meissen porcelain box on paw feet - image-1
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Lot 1601 Dα

A Meissen porcelain box on paw feet

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
Result: 750 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain box on paw feet

Oval box with gadrooning and floral decor. The original lid with a finial formed as a crouching rabbit. Blue crossed swords mark with K. One handle and two feet reattached (chipped), a short vertical firing crack to the body. H 8.7, W 14.7, D 8 cm.
Around 1750/60.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

A similar box with smooth surface and polychromy in Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich 1966, no. 318.
Cf. also further examples of this form and decor in von Barsewisch, Unterglasurblaue Malerei, in: Keramos 121/1988, illus. 51 and 52.