STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
A MEISSEN PUNCH BOWL AND COVER, CIRCA 1765-70, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LATER
Auction Closed
October 25, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
A MEISSEN PUNCH BOWL AND COVER, CIRCA 1765-70, THE DECORATION PROBABLY LATER
painted after Hogarth's 'A Midnight Modern Conversation', the domed cover with a finial modeled as a child vintner and his companion emblematic of Autumn, with scattered flower sprays and sprigs, and neue-ozier-molded borders, crossed swords and dot mark in underglaze blue.
diameter 9 ⅝ in.
24.4 cm
Ulla Stafford Antiques, Binfield, 2000
Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.