Lorenz Hutschenreuther A.G. Selb Department of Art, Art Deco lidded box 1st half 20th cent, ,designed by Fritz Klee (ca. 1916/17), porcelain, white, glazed, polychrome painting, gold staffage, tapering lid with surrounding tendril motifs, box decorated all around with tendrils and embedded birds of paradise, green Hutschenreuther Selb mark (1919-28) to the base, h: 13.5 cm, d: 9 cm. Limit 72,-

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