Meissen Porcelain Cooling Bucket,

Based on an 18th century model, this beautiful Louis XV style cooling bucket is hand-painted on the belly in polychrome with branched birds, here and there are insects, butterflies, ladybugs, cockchafers or other. The body which rests on a pedestal is slightly twisted and decorated in the upper part with a basketwork decoration in relief, on each side there is a shell-shaped handle enhanced with gold. The mark, representing the intertwined initials AR and affixed to the reverse, is that of Meïssen under Auguste Le Fort, King of Poland, and owner of the factory from 1723 to 1736. This mark was taken up in the 19th century in particular by the Manufacture of Héléna Wolfsohn who produced very fine quality porcelain from 1843 to 1883 and who is probably at the origin of this cooling bucket. Height 26 cm. width 22 cm.