A BÖTTGER (KPM) OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER CIRCA 1725, BOX INTERIOR WITH BLUE K.P.M. CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 73. MARKS TO BOTH The bombé box painted with a continuous scene of figures in a wooded landscape, with a figure on horseback at discussion with another figure standing by his horse, a town by a lake or river in the distance with mountains beyond, below a double channelled gilt line and gilt band border, the footrim with a gilt band, the domed cover with a hunting scene with huntsmen approaching a river, within an oval Böttger -lustre cartouche gilt with scrolls and flowerheads and edged with iron-red and puce scrolls, within a moulded gilt band rim (sanding to glaze, box with slight firing fault to footrim, cover with minute areas of wear to gilt rim) 4¾ in. (12 cm.) wide
A BÖTTGER (KPM) OVAL SUGAR-BOX AND COVER CIRCA 1725, BOX INTERIOR WITH BLUE K.P.M. CROSSED SWORDS MARK, GILDER'S 73. MARKS TO BOTH The bombé box painted with a continuous scene of figures in a wooded landscape, with a figure on horseback at discussion with another figure standing by his horse, a town by a lake or river in the distance with mountains beyond, below a double channelled gilt line and gilt band border, the footrim with a gilt band, the domed cover with a hunting scene with huntsmen approaching a river, within an oval Böttger -lustre cartouche gilt with scrolls and flowerheads and edged with iron-red and puce scrolls, within a moulded gilt band rim (sanding to glaze, box with slight firing fault to footrim, cover with minute areas of wear to gilt rim) 4¾ in. (12 cm.) wide
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