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Plants and flowers. More - trees, fruits, animals etc. - to be added soon!



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ANIMALS

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FLOWERS

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FRUIT & VEGETABLES

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TREES

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Soup-tureen with "en treillage" pattern and a girl-gardener perched on the lid. Meissen, around 1760.
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Soup-tureen with "en treillage" pattern and a girl-gardener perched on...

Table-set for Clemens-August of Wittelsbach,Elector and Archbishop of Cologne, Meissen,1741-42.All pieces show the Archbishop's initials under the elector's hat. Floral design with insects and butterflies.
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Table-set for Clemens-August of Wittelsbach,Elector and Archbishop of Cologn...

Service-set for Clemens-August of Wittelsbach,Elector and Archbishop of Cologne, Meissen,1741-42.All pieces show the Archbishop's initials under the elector's hat. Floral design with insects and butterflies. Detail:intricate handle of the sauceboat.
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Service-set for Clemens-August of Wittelsbach,Elector and Archbishop of Cologn...

Plate and fruit-basket from the "Sanssouci" service set, KPM (Royal Prussian Manufacture)1769-70. King Friedrich II ordered it for his palace Sanssouci in Potsdam near Berlin, to be used in the "Chinese Tea-house".
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Plate and fruit-basket from the "Sanssouci" service set, KPM (Royal...

Coffee and tea-set, Frankenthal manufacture,1760. Artistic director of Frankenthal was Paul Anton Hannong, who brought most of his craftsmen from the Strassburg porcelain manufacture. Detail:Floral ornament from a plate.
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Coffee and tea-set, Frankenthal manufacture,1760. Artistic director of Fra...

Table set with birds, most famous Frankenthal set,1771, inspired by a Sevres set of 1760. Detail:birds from the rim of a serving dish. See 30-03-02/29
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Table set with birds, most famous Frankenthal set,1771, inspired by a Sevres set...

"Lever" toilette set, a gift from Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg to the Marchesa Giovanelli Martinengo. Its 58 pieces include a table bell, a breakfast set, snuff box and clothes-brush,a "lavoir"handwashing set and mirror.Detail:knob of the lid of a box.Ludwigsburg
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"Lever" toilette set, a gift from Duke Carl Eugen of Wuerttemberg to the M...

Pear-shaped tea-box, chocolate and tea-pots with scale-relief and flowers. The scale-relief was a specialty of Ludwigsburg, never copied by any other maufacture. Detail:the "scale" pattern.See 30-03-02/30. Ludwigsburg, 1765
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Pear-shaped tea-box, chocolate and tea-pots with scale-relief and flowers...

Bowl with Chinoiserie-ornaments,gold and blue. Meissen, 1760-70
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Bowl with Chinoiserie-ornaments,gold and blue. Meissen, 1760-70

Parrot,Meissen porcelain,1770. Painting of a boy blowing a soap bubble.
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Parrot,Meissen porcelain,1770. Painting of a boy blowing a soap bubble.

Plaque, showing a donkey, From Benin, 16th/17th H: 13 cm
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Plaque, showing a donkey, From Benin, 16th/17th...

Ivory cup, covered,probably a salt cellar.African work, Portuguese influence. From Sherbro,Sierra Leone.On the cover a series of crocodiles eating the genitals of male figures. One the base four males, four females, the men Portuguese (hats!) H:23 cm Inv.67-3-25-1
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Ivory cup, covered,probably a salt cellar.African work, Portuguese influence. Fr...