243: A LARGE MEISSEN PORCELAIN SCHNEEBALLEN URN WITH COVER

The bolted urn of baluster form on stand with cover is encrusted in hundreds of applied porcelain blossoms, birds, vines, woody stems and 'schneeballen' or snowballs. The base bears the crossed swords mark in blue under the glaze.
Measures 22.5 x 11 x 11 inches.
Restoration to the surmount bird's beak, also the lower bird's beak with loss to its tail, small repair to the opposing bird's forked tail, repair to various leaves and minor bits of loss to scattered small encrusted blossoms. There is a firing line to the base, not a crack, near the mark.
$1,000 - $2,000