Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
Mario Buatta: Prince of Interiors
AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF MEISSEN PEACH BOXES AND COVERS, CIRCA 1760
Auction Closed
January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold Without Reserve
AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF MEISSEN PEACH BOXES AND COVERS, CIRCA 1760
naturalistically modeled and painted in mottled pink and shades of light green, with a green cherry knop, one with traces of crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, bearing Russian inventory number G.D.P in Cyrillic and number 792 in black ink, possibly The Imperial Palace, Gatchina, St. Petersburg
height 3 ⅝ in.
9.2 cm
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 24 February 1978, lot 129 (one; one of a pair)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 31 October 1981, lot 215 (the other)
A further pair was in the Garbisch Collection, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 17 May 1980, lot 139. A further pair bearing Russian inventory marks was sold at Sotheby's London, the Collection of Mrs. Peggy Ann Hawkins, Lexington, Virginia, 2 June 1959, lot 119