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Posted by: Laurence Mitchell	17/04/2008
Wealthy can buy antiques just to look at News-Leader.com, MO - Apr 16, 2008 A much-less-expensive but still pricey antique, a Meissen porcelain-mounted desk, auctioned recently for $54500. It is an expensive and impractical but rare .. It is very unlikely the porcelain on this desk is Meissen. Most certainly the main frame and the pillars surrounding the panels are not. It is doubtful the porcelain placques are either since the colours do not appear to be Meissen but the photogaph is of too poor quality to make the distinction. It is unfortunate that more than 90% of Meissen funiture that has come into the market place during the laast 20 year through the network of all the salesrooms worldwide has mistakingly been attributed as Meissen. If this desk was truly Meissen then an extra nought would be more appropriate for the price realised! Hence the rarity of genuine Meissen. In the piece illustrated the legs and framework were probably made in Paris towards the end of the 19th century. Paris was one of Europe's centre's for copying Meissen porcelain. If an article is being shown where the porcelain cannot be guaranteed, it is better to add 'MEISSEN'etc. The inverted brackets indicate in the style of.

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