English and European Ceramics and Glass - 2nd October 2012

Lot 688

A Sèvres-style square dish with ormolu mount 19th century

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £420

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Description

A Sèvres-style square dish with ormolu mount 19th century, the dish painted with a courting couple and a caged bird, perhaps emblematic of Matrimony, raised on an ormolu stand of mermaids holding baskets of fruit and shells, the dish cracked, 20cm high.