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TWO CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN GILT-METAL MOUNTED ASPARAGUS-FORM ETUIS OR NEEDLE CASES, PROBABLY MEISSEN, MID TO LATE 18TH CENTURY

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January 25, 03:59 AM GMT

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1,000 - 1,500 USD

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TWO CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN GILT-METAL MOUNTED ASPARAGUS-FORM ETUIS OR NEEDLE CASES, PROBABLY MEISSEN, MID TO LATE 18TH CENTURY


naturalistically modeled and colored, with hinged metal covers

length 3 ¼ in.

8.3 cm

James Lewis and Son, New York, bearing label (the green example)

The Estate of Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 17 May 1980, lot 127 (the pale manganese example)

An example of an etui of this form is in the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, collection record 1931-6-27