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A PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF GARDENERS AND A BOWL MOUNTED IN GILT-BRONZE AS A POT POURRI, THE PORCELAIN, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Property from the Estate of Susan S. DillonA PAIR OF MEISSEN FIGURES OF GARDENERS AND A BOWL MOUNTED IN GILT-BRONZE AS A POT POURRI, THE PORCELAIN, MID-18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURYeach modeled as a young boy, one wearing a puce, blue and yellow hat and costume, holding a rake and the other wearing a yellow, blue and white costume, holding a staff and bearing on his back a pannier of flowers, each on gilt-edged scroll-molded mound base flanking an oval bowl molded with basketwork and reserved with four quatrefoil panels painted with Watteau figures, mounted with a pierced gilt-bronze cover and resting on a gilt-bronze tree affixed with porcelain blossoms, all on a shaped rectangular gilt-bronze base with melon and leaf feet with green t?le peinte branches.width 10 in.; height 8 ? in.25.3 cm; 21 cm A similar gilt-bronze mounted model with a Meissen porcelain bowl adapted as a pot pourri, supported on a model of an elephant, is in the Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris.Sotheby’s Scientific Research department used non-invasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.