A PAIR OF MEISSEN DOLPHIN FOOTED COMPORTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

A PAIR OF MEISSEN DOLPHIN FOOTED COMPORTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY 

modelled as three putti respectively playing a lyre, blowing a horn and shooting an arrow, each on the back of a dolphin, the three dolphins with entwined tails supporting a shaped dish with a shell molded underside, painted with a vignette of three putti and a large dolphin in water, with a gilt-edged pink-shaded rim, the gilt-edged shaped-base molded as water with reeds and bulrushes, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised model numbers F.117., one with impressed number 163

height 8½ in.

21.6 cm