An assembled pair of Meissen wine coolers, circa 1740-45

each of octofoil form, painted with landscape scenes, one with panels of fine European figures at various pursuits, the other with a continuous scene of merchants with their wares beside an extensive quayside with distant boats on the water, each separated by gilt vertical bands, the interior rims with gilt scroll borders, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, impressed numeral 10 to both,

The Jessie Woolworth Donahue, New York, Sotheby's New York, 29th April 1972;
The Antique Porcelain Company (paper labels to both)

Ulrich Pietsch, Preziosen, einer süddeutschen Kunstsammlung, 2001, p. 53

Both have some wear to the gilding along the top edge of the rims. One cooler has four areas of re-gilding to the band at the rim on the outside edge..
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Another assembled pair of wine coolers was offered for sale at Sotheby's New York, 12th November 1999, lot 26. A further pair was in The Maurice de Rothschild Collection, his (anon.) sale, Christie's London, 28th March 1977, lot 86, and subsequently sold at Christie's Geneva, 17th November 1980, lot 149.