AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER mounted with Meissen porcelain

AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE

MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER

mounted with Meissen porcelain, c.1740-50, with a figure of a beggar musician playing a hurdy-gurdy modelled by J. J. Kandler, together with a girl feeding chickens, another chicken and a Cupid figure in disguise as a fish seller, decorated with laurel leaves supporting a turquoise ground sugar bowl and cover painted with panels of harbour scenes, the lid with courting couples

35cm high, 27.2cm wide

PROVENANCE

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916 - 2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House