Lot 63*
A Meissen Hausmaler octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1725-35
7 December 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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A Meissen Hausmaler octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1725-35
Painted in underglaze-blue with birds and flowers issuing from stylised rockwork, the cover with an overlapping scale-border to the rim, overdecorated in Augsburg in gilding reserved against the underglaze-blue, 11cm across, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (some minor wear to gilding on cover, restored chip to inside rim of box) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 5 July 1966, lot 177 (part);
Pauls-Eisenbeiss Collection, Basel;
Private Collection, Switzerland
Literature:
Pauls-Eisenbeiss 1972, vol. I, p. 382
By family repute, this sugar box was part of a service given by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, to Countess Ingelheim am Rhein in 1730.
