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TWELVE GERMAN PORCELAIN CANE-HANDLES AND A GILT-METAL EXAMPLE
MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE FIRST WITH VARIOUS ENAMELLED LETTERS TO EDGE
TWELVE GERMAN PORCELAIN CANE-HANDLES AND A GILT-METAL EXAMPLE MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE FIRST WITH VARIOUS ENAMELLED LETTERS TO EDGE Comprising: a scroll-shaped T-section handle, probably Berlin, painted with loose bouquets of flowers and insects, within gilt and turquoise scroll-moulded terminals; a Berlin example of C-scroll shaped form, moulded with a Frauenkopf terminal and painted with bouquets; an example, perhaps Berlin, modelled as a head of a woman wearing a yellow straw hat tied with a floral scarf; a Meissen example of S-shape form, moulded with a lion's head terminal, the body painted with loose bouquets and sprigs, the tapering end with a gold feather-shaped mount; a Meissen scroll-shaped T-section example decorated in purpurmaleri with figures in landscapes after Watteau and scattered sprigs; a Meissen gilt-metal mounted claw-shaped example moulded with a bacchic mask and a ram's head terminal; a German example of similar form, moulded with scrolls, painted with a Watteauesque couple in a landscape; a German example of scrolled T-section painted in purpurmaleri with a vignette of a couple, enriched in gilding; two small German examples of similar form, one with a metal-mount; two German examples of swelling cylindrical form, one painted with rose-sprays, the other with fishermen and figures; a gilt-metal example of rococo-scroll form, slight rubbing to enamels, chips and cracks The largest 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) wide (13)