Classic Design: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics & Clocks
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics & Clocks
A Meissen gilt-metal mounted baluster vase, circa 1745-50, the mounts later
Lot Closed
November 8, 02:26 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen gilt-metal mounted baluster vase, circa 1745-50, the mounts later
the vase painted with vignettes of figures after Watteau within moulded quatrefoil cartouches on a ground applied with densely packed bloom flowerheads, supported on a base pierced and cast with scrolls, the rim applied with foliage and suspending ribbon bows, the mounts with a spurious c poincon mark
35.5cm. high
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.