Four Pieces of Continental Porcelain

Description:

Four Pieces of Continental Porcelain, two Sevres cache pots or wine bottle coolers with similar decoration of polychrome flower sprays with cobalt blue and gilded accents: one soft paste porcelain with blue factory mark dated 1757 and decorator's mark, ht. 4, the hard paste porcelain with undated purple factory mark and decorator's mark, ht. 4; and two Meissen: a cabinet plate with pierced rim and central scene of musicians in a landscape, with first quality crossed swords mark, dia. 9 3/4, and a covered sugar bow decorated with polychrome flowers, with second quality crossed swords mark, ht. 4 1/2 in.
Estimate $400-600

All with light, age-typical loss to enamel and gilt. Hard paste Sevres: Rim and foot rim chip. Meissen sugar bowl: Loss to floriform finial.


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