P156 - MEISSEN CANE HANDLE

 

Circa 1740

Modeled as the head of a fashionable woman, the scroll handle with puce harbor scenes and floral sprigs

4-1/2 in. long

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 188, plate 43, fig. 173.

 

PROVENANCE

With Lukacs-Donath, Rome.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996