4 Antique Meissen Porcelain Footed Frauenkopf Salt Cellars With Puce Flowers

Description

A very fine set of 4 antique Meissen porcelain salt cellars.

Modelled after salts originally designed for the Sulkowski service … more A very fine set of 4 antique Meissen porcelain salt cellars.

Modelled after salts originally designed for the Sulkowski service by Johann Friedrich Eberlein (1696-1749).

Having a tapered, circular bowl with basketweave border, painted with Deutsche Blumen floral sprays in purple-camaïeu, and supported on three scroll feet with Frauenkopf terminals.

This group likely dates to the end of the 19th century.

Simply top level porcelain!

Reference - Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, pl. 123, no. 487

Date:
Late 19th or Early 20th Century

Overall Condition:
They are in overall, good, as-pictured, used estate condition.

Condition Details:
There are chips to several of the scroll feet of the salts, a flake to the nose of one Frauenkopf, and some orange discoloration to the glaze in 2 of the salts. Otherwise, there are some very fine and light surface and glaze scratches here and there and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age.

Maker:
Meissen

Pattern:
Sulkowski' type salts with Frauenköpfe

Marks:
Faint and worn blue crossed swords factory marks to most and impressed numbers and cyphers

Measurements:
Diameter: ca. 3 3/8 in.
Height: ca. 3 5/8 in. less