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868 - Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur
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Meissen Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur Friedrich Elias Meyer der Ältere, zugeschrieben A rare Meissen porcelain frame with a vacant heraldic cartouche With older mirror pane. Modelled in relief with rocaille and shell motifs, flowers and leafy tendrils. A cartouche at the top and bottom for a coat of arms or monogram (here decorated with gold-etched floral bouquets), above the reserve crowned by the Polish royal crown and an eagle with outstretched wings, the coat of arms set against a background of trophies. Unmarked. With minor firing cracks and chips. Height 34.5 cm, width 23 cm, depth 5 cm. C. 1750–60, the model attributed to Friedrich Elias Meyer. Provenance Albrecht Neuhaus Art Gallery, Würzburg. South German private collection. Literature Cf. Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge 1956, fig. 137, pl. 92, a pair of frames with an almost identical cresting, formerly in the Irwin Untermyer Collection and since 1964 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (obj. no. 64.101.189). A comparable frame with a relief depicting the Holy Family is in the Porcelain Collection, Dresden (inv. no. PE 3614).
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Arts and crafts, silver, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, and porcelainAuction house
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