A Meissen porcelain snuff bottle formed as a figure of harlequin with a dog - image-1
A Meissen porcelain snuff bottle formed as a figure of harlequin with a dog - image-2
A Meissen porcelain snuff bottle formed as a figure of harlequin with a dog - image-1A Meissen porcelain snuff bottle formed as a figure of harlequin with a dog - image-2

Lot 1137 Dα

A Meissen porcelain snuff bottle formed as a figure of harlequin with a dog

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain snuff bottle formed as a figure of harlequin with a dog

Gilt metal mounted flask designed as a finely painted group. Unmarked, the base painted with "indianische blumen". A restored chip to the edge of the base. H 9 cm.
1740s.

Provenance

Dott. Guido Rossi Collection, Milan.
Private collection Westphalia.

Literature

Cf. Brattig (ed.), Meissen, Barockes Porzellan, Stuttgart-Köln 2010, cat. no. 72, for a later example of the same model.
This model from the collection of Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer also housed in the Porzellansammlung Dresden (inv. no. PE 1888).