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Lot 1156 Dα

A Meissen porcelain sugar box with merchant navy scenes

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
18.11.2022, 14:30 - Porcelain Glass
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.024 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain sugar box with merchant navy scenes

Oval box, the original lid with a rabbit finial. Painted with particularly finely rendered merchant scenes in two opulent surrounds to the body and both sides of the lid. Blue crossed swords mark, former's mark triangle, presumably that of Johann Gottfried Fehrmann. Minor retouches and wear to the gilding, a minute firing flaw to the rim of the lid. H 8.2, W 12 cm.
C. 1735/36, decor attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold.

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. Pietsch, Passion for Meissen, Sammlung Said und Roswitha Marouf, Stuttgart 2010, cat. no. 84.