PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE HONORABLE HORST DENK AND THE HONORABLE RUTH E. DENK
A MATCHED PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN TUREENS AND COVERS
THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS; THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE
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Price Realised USD 3,276
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USD 5,000 - USD 7,000
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A MATCHED PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN TUREENS AND COVERS
THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS; THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATE
THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS; THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATEA MATCHED PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN TUREENS AND COVERSEstimate: USD 5,000 - 7,000
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Present well; some light surface wear and light rubbing to gilding; a few scattered small chips, including some a few restored chips to finial leaves. The slightly earlier example with a Y-shaped crack centering the handle and with old overpaint, now somewhat yellowed, and associated restoration to one scroll foot below; one of its small cauliflower florets restored. The slightly later example with firing cracks to two of the scroll feet and some glue residue where the ormolu is affixed. The ormolu with some tarnishing.
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Lot 16Sale 23577
THE PORCELAIN MID-18TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS; THE ORMOLU OF LATER DATEA MATCHED PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MEISSEN PORCELAIN TUREENS AND COVERSEstimate: USD 5,000 - 7,000
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