#89

German Porcelain Powder Jar with Flapper and Pierrot
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$950
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9 1/2" (24 cm.) The two-piece porcelain powder box ensemble features a young lady with black cropped flapper hair style being balanced upon the knee of Pierrot. The lady has exaggerated eye make-up,extended right arm with two pointing fingers,the left arm wrapped around her back,with painted pink and magenta stylized dress whose skirt forms the powder jar; Pierrot has classic black and white costume and is posed upon an oval porcelain base with geometric black and white design. Incised illegible numbers. Germany,circa 1915.