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Unusual 19th Century Vienna-style Reticulated Porcelain Box
REF: 6346 / LA485744
£450
€526
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Description
Unusual 19th Century Vienna-style porcelain box with a reticulated (pierced) lid, richly gilded on a deep blue ground framed in light blue, with pink reticulation, and columns at each corner. Perhaps intended as a potpourri holder or perfume burner. The stepped lid has a gilded griffon finial. Gilded horned smiling masks decorate either end. At the front, an oval panel, painted with “Love’s Dream” after a painting by Martens Willem Johannes (Dutch 1838-1895).
The painting is signed. This title is in gold on the base, which is, unusually, otherwise unmarked apart from the numbers 28 and 17. Most Vienna-style porcelain items come with spurious factory marks. The back has a circular panel decorated in gold with a bird in a landscape.
We have seen many Vienna-style wares but never a slab-built porcelain box of this kind before. Most boxes are wheel-thrown for the good reason that they are so much easier to make circular or oval. The lack of spurious factory markings is also unusual.
measurements
Height:
11.5 cm
Width:
12.5 cm
Depth:
7.8 cm
measurements
declaration
Lefays has clarified that the Unusual 19th Century Vienna-style Reticulated Porcelain Box (LA485744) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 19th Century
declaration
condition
condition
Condition: Light wear. No cracks or chips. Some losses to gilding at high points. The lid fits quite loosely on the box.