A rare Meissen porcelain tobacco box
A rare Meissen porcelain tobacco box
Lobed design finely painted with landscapes and merchant navy scenes in six reserves. Blue crossed swords mark. Minor staining from the firing process, the branch shaped handle restored. H 17.5, diameter 15 cm.
Around 1745.
Provenance
Probably in the Electoral Bavarian collections of the Wittelsbach family since the 18th century, through marriage in the princely collection of Sayn-Wittgenstein, Rottach-Egern, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Baron Alix de Rothschild, London.
German private collection, acquired from Röbbig, Munich.
Literature
Cf. Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda. Meissen. Figuren, Dosen und Tafelgerät aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, 1997, cat. no. 156, for a pot using the same model.
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A rare Meissen porcelain tobacco box
Lobed design finely painted with landscapes and merchant navy scenes in six reserves. Blue crossed swords mark. Minor staining from the firing process, the branch shaped handle restored. H 17.5, diameter 15 cm.
Around 1745.
Provenance
Probably in the Electoral Bavarian collections of the Wittelsbach family since the 18th century, through marriage in the princely collection of Sayn-Wittgenstein, Rottach-Egern, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Baron Alix de Rothschild, London.
German private collection, acquired from Röbbig, Munich.
Literature
Cf. Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda. Meissen. Figuren, Dosen und Tafelgerät aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, 1997, cat. no. 156, for a pot using the same model.
