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Lot 55
Sale 5656 - The Collection of Robert & Barbara Safford
Sep 25, 2013
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$4,000 -
6,000
Price Realized
$14,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Meissen porcelain floral encrusted hand-painted covered urn late 19th/early 20th century
The openworked cover surmounted by a profuse bouquet of flowers with insects, the body encrusted with numerous large colorful flowerheads, fruit, and insects, surrounding on one side a scene of three eighteenth century figures in a bucolic landscape, on the other with a gilt monogram surmounted by a crown flanked by winged cherubs holding a floral garland, raised on circular foot with applied figure of a maiden with a basket of flowers; underglaze blue crossed swords mark, incised "B.C." and impressed number 163 to underside.
H. 31 in.