Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 11th August 2020
Lot 267
AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER mounted with Meissen porcelain
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £3800
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Description
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