AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN BASKET FITTED WITH A BOUQUET OF FRENCH SOFT- PASTE PORCELAIN FLOWERS

THE MEISSEN BASKET CIRCA 1750 WITH BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, THE FLOWERS FRENCH 18TH CENTURY AND WITH SOME LATER REPLACEMENTS, THE ORMOLU 19TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN BASKET FITTED WITH A BOUQUET OF FRENCH SOFT- PASTE PORCELAIN FLOWERS
The Meissen basket circa 1750 with blue crossed swords mark, the flowers French 18th Century and with some later replacements, the ormolu 19th Century
The pierced oval basket moulded to the exterior with blue and yellow flowerheads, the interior fitted with a green tôle peinte plate issuing sixteen leafy ormolu stems with tulips, carnations, rosebuds and other stylized flowers and buds, on an oval base with ropetwist border and scroll feet
10½in. (26.7cm.) wide, 9¾in. (25cm.) wide

拍品专文

For the most ambitious ormolu-mounted ensemble with Vincennes flowers, a gift of Marie-Josèphe of France to her father Augustus III of Saxony, see Svend Eriksen and Geoffrey de Bellaigue, 'Sèvres Porcelain' (1987), pl. 2, pp. 190 and 191.