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Auction archive: Lot number 14

A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$37,871 - US$63,119
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 14

A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$37,871 - US$63,119
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725 The knopped, beaker shape with a flared rim and footrim, painted in underglaze-blue with two flower vases on the upper register, two sprays of leafy flowering branches on the knop, and two covered vessels decorated with flowers and flanked by leafy, flowering branches on the bottom section, 36.5cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (restored) Fußnoten Literature: S. Schwartz/J. Munger, 'Gifts of Meissen Porcelain to the French Court, 1728-50', in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2008), pp. 142-143, fig. 7-2 Two similar vases were in the Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Berlin, of which one is illustrated by Adolf Brüning, Porzellan (1914), ill. 37, and by L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellan der europäischen Manufakturen (1922), ill. 27 and front cover.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725 The knopped, beaker shape with a flared rim and footrim, painted in underglaze-blue with two flower vases on the upper register, two sprays of leafy flowering branches on the knop, and two covered vessels decorated with flowers and flanked by leafy, flowering branches on the bottom section, 36.5cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (restored) Fußnoten Literature: S. Schwartz/J. Munger, 'Gifts of Meissen Porcelain to the French Court, 1728-50', in M. Cassidy-Geiger (ed.), Fragile Diplomacy (2008), pp. 142-143, fig. 7-2 Two similar vases were in the Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Berlin, of which one is illustrated by Adolf Brüning, Porzellan (1914), ill. 37, and by L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellan der europäischen Manufakturen (1922), ill. 27 and front cover.

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
2 Jul 2019
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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