German Porcelain Lidded Boxes 19Th Century, Each Molded With
LOW HIGH Lot Description Estimate Estimate (Lot of 2) German porcelain lidded boxes 19th Century, each molded with polychrome painted floral sprays, the first (Berlin early 19th century) with canted corners, Gitterwerk bands and a molded branch form handle; the second with gilt-metal mounts, the larger with 2000 a blue scepter mark impressed K22, largest: 6"h x 9.5"w x 7.5"d Provenance: Berlin example acquired from Alexandre Popoff, Paris in 1952. Second Provenance: from the Birmingham Museum of Art. $ 2,000 - 4,000 Pair of Sevres style urns, late 19th century, executed in the Louis XVI taste, hand-painted and with ormolu mounts, the obverse painted with courting couples, and the reverse decorated 2001 with luminous landscapes with distant castles, mounted with gilt-bronze bases, ring pulls and pinecone knops, 15.5"h x 7"dia $ 3,000 - 5,000 Pair of Nymphenburg porcelain reticulated "green landscape" service plates circa 1775, the 2002 centered painted with a landscape vignette above rocaille framework, the border pierced as trellis, 10" dia. Provenance: from the Birmingham Museum of Art. $ 1,200 - 1,800 Meissen porcelain baluster cruet and cover circa 1750, having a mask form spout, notched mouth, domed cover and C scroll handle, painted front and back in purpurmalerie with a 2003 hunting vignette of the taking of a boar or a stag, above a gilt rocaille-scroll bracket, polychrome sprays of forget-me-nots and a rose below the spout handle, 6.5"h. Provenance: from the Birmingham Museum of Art. $ 2,500 - 4,500 Pair of Sceaux faience potpourri lidded vases circa 1780, each having a pierced and notched cover with fruit cluster finial, the compressed cylindrical vase with pierced flat shoulder and 2004 upright bracket handles, painted with loose bouquets of roses and other flowers, rising on a socle foot, the rim as faux marbre, 9.25"h.
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