Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 163
A Meissen Augustus Rex vase and a cover, circa 1745
2 July 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,812.50 inc. premium
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Sebastian Kuhn
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
A Meissen Augustus Rex vase and a cover, circa 1745
Each side painted with a landscape vignette with birds perched on leafy branches, and scattered insects, gilt borders, the cover with similar insects and applied with a finial in the form of a flower spray, 41cm high, AR mark in underglaze-blue (restored) (2)
Footnotes
The Kingfisher depicted perched on a branch is after plate 54 of Eleazar Albin's "A Natural History of Birds", 2nd edition, published in London in 1738; see T.H. Clarke, Das Northumberland-Service aus Meissener Porzellan, in Keramos 70 (October 1975), ill. 163. A similar depiction of a Kingfisher on an AR-marked Meissen vase, then in the collection of Robert von Hirsch, Basel, is illustrated by Clarke (ill. 164).
