Details
The Sultan wearing a jewelled turban and long flowing robes, a sabre at his waist, taking snuff from a snuff-box held by his seated Polish bride, she wearing a white headdress and veil, a jewelled bodice and a flowered skirt, a Polish soldier standing behind them holding an axe, wearing a gilt plumed black cap, on a shaped oval base applied with flowers and foliage
534 in. (14.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold Christie's Geneva, 9 May 1988, lot 34.
Literature
Melitta Kunze-Köllensperger, Collection Franz E. Burda, Meissen, Augsburg, 1997, p. 113., fig.39.
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Another example of this group was sold Christie's London, 17 November 2009, lot 47. See also Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, no. 979.

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