4 Antique Meissen Porcelain Footed Frauenkopf Salt Cellars with Puce Flowers -PC

Description

Offered here for your consideration is a
very fine set of 4 antique Meissen porcelain salt cellars.
Additional Details:
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 (maiden heads).
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.
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