Lot 110
Lot 110
A MEISSEN PORCELAIN GROUP OF 'THE POLISH BETHROTHAL'

CIRCA 1745

Price Realised GBP 21,420
Estimate
GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000
Closed: 25 Sep 2024
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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN GROUP OF 'THE POLISH BETHROTHAL'

CIRCA 1745

Price Realised GBP 21,420
Closed: 25 Sep 2024
Price Realised GBP 21,420
Closed: 25 Sep 2024
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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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