A Meissen octagonal sugar box and cover, circa 1725
Each side finely painted with a harbour or estuary scene with distant ships, one with a figure on the shore in the foreground, within a gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche edged with purple and iron-red scrolls, each end with indianische Blumen, the cover with two similar vignettes enclosed by a purple trellis band, gilt scrollwork, a purple seeded band and the gilt-edged rim, green and gilt finial, 11cm across; 7.5cm high, K.P.M. and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 32. to both (2)
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Each side finely painted with a harbour or estuary scene with distant ships, one with a figure on the shore in the foreground, within a gilt quatrelobe scrollwork cartouche edged with purple and iron-red scrolls, each end with indianische Blumen, the cover with two similar vignettes enclosed by a purple trellis band, gilt scrollwork, a purple seeded band and the gilt-edged rim, green and gilt finial, 11cm across; 7.5cm high, K.P.M. and crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, gilt numeral 32. to both (2)
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