A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PARTRIDGE-FORM TUREEN AND COVER, MOUNTED ON A ROCOCO GILT BRONZE BASE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Meissen partridge boxes were available for English clientele in the 18th century, and the model was copied by the Derby porcelain factory in about 1760. A pair of Meissen examples still remain in the collection at Burghley House, Lincolnshire, England, and was recorded in the 1763 Inventory: “Lady Exeters dressing room……two partridges on their nests…Dresden china”. A Meissen partridge box with similar gilt-bronze mounts was sold at Replica Shoes 's London, 28 June, 1973, lot 59. An unmounted box was in the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, sold at Christie's New York, 9 May, 2018, lot 206.

Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was detected.