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Ormolu Basket of Porcelain Flowers
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This item is no longer available
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Dates
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Circa 1800
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Dimensions
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25.00cm high
(9.84 inches high)
27.00cm wide
(10.63 inches wide)
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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France
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Description
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An extremely beautiful ormolu oval trellis basket, filled with 50 porcelain flowers attached to coloured metal stems, consisting of a mixture of 18th and 19th century porcelain flowers from various factories including: Vincennes, Sèvres, Meissen and other hard paste continental manufacturers.
The ormolu basket is 19th century.
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Literature
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G Röbbig, Cabinet Pieces, The Meissen Porcelain Birds of Johann Joachim Kändler p.63, for a Meissen basket filled with a collection of Early French soft paste flowers
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