(2) Continental Porcelain Pomander Box & Meissen Style Lamp, Loss

Lot description

(lot of 2) Continental porcelain table items, each with restorations and loss, including: (1) French Louis XVI style gilt bronze and porcelain pomander, 19th c., glue restoration and hole/loss to top, the egg-form box in a hand-painted foliated fruit motif, with pierced bronze central band, amid porcelain flowers on leafy stems, the bronze plinth with polychrome chicken and guinea hen, approx 6 1/8"h, 8"w, 5"d; (1) Meissen style parcel-gilt porcelain lidded urn/ vase, now fashioned as a two-light table lamp, having floral reserves on white ground, surrounded by ornate gilt patterning, rising on integral square base, further rising on beaded gilt-metal plinth, socle intact with glue repair and associated small chips, lacking finial, observed operating, cord would benefit from being replaced, overall: approx 21.5"h, 7"w, 5"d; 7.5lbs total