Porcelain Lidded Box with Bronze Details in the Style of Meissen, Paris, Late 19th Century

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Fine porcelain lidded box after Meissen model with excellent gilded bronze mounting in Louis XVI style, made in the late … Read more Fine porcelain lidded box after Meissen model with excellent gilded bronze mounting in Louis XVI style, made in the late 19th c. by Edmé Samson et Cie, Paris: bronze mount consisting of four curved slender legs, standing on a rectangular plinth with indented sides and rounded corners, ending in buck's hooves at the bottom and goat's mascarons at the top; the buck's heads hold a hoop with an openwork garland of leaves and beaded rim, on which sits the slightly domed lid of the porcelain lidded box. The hemispherical lidded box is made of white glazed hard porcelain and, like the lid, has a rim decorated with ornamental relief. The vessel wall and lid are decorated with European flower bouquets and scattered flowers in polychrome muffle painting in Meissen style, the lid is additionally decorated with applied flower branches and a figural lid knob in the shape of a siskin with typical green-yellow plumage. Pseudo-Meissen mark on the bottom as used by Edmé Samson et Cie/Paris in the second half of the 19th century. Very high quality porcelain, very close to the Meissen model, both in the texture of the body and in the polychrome painting. Condition: very good, min. signs of age and wear, minor abrasion, minor chips on the applied flowers. This piece has an attribution mark,
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