Meissen "Watch case with gardener figures
Meissen "Watch case with gardener figures
designed by Ernst August Leuteritz (using old forms) 1865-1875, underglaze blue pommel sword mark 1860-1924, 1st choice, incised model number 572 and number 44.naturalistic form with fine polychrome painting on glaze and gold staffage, on a rocaille edged rock base two gardener's children and a lady in rococo dress, the clock case in the middle is richly decorated with large flowers and leaves and a further gardener's child as crowning, expertly restored condition with partly missing petals, enamel dial with Arabic numerals, pendulum and bell missing, function not tested, h 38,5 cm. Source: Bergmann, Meissener Figuren, volume III/1, p. 692, Fig. 2548.
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Meissen "Watch case with gardener figures
designed by Ernst August Leuteritz (using old forms) 1865-1875, underglaze blue pommel sword mark 1860-1924, 1st choice, incised model number 572 and number 44.naturalistic form with fine polychrome painting on glaze and gold staffage, on a rocaille edged rock base two gardener's children and a lady in rococo dress, the clock case in the middle is richly decorated with large flowers and leaves and a further gardener's child as crowning, expertly restored condition with partly missing petals, enamel dial with Arabic numerals, pendulum and bell missing, function not tested, h 38,5 cm. Source: Bergmann, Meissener Figuren, volume III/1, p. 692, Fig. 2548.