Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 11*
A rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase and cover, circa 1730
6 July 2021, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £125,250 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase and cover, circa 1730
Of ovoid form, superbly painted in the manner of J.E. Stadler with a vignette depicting two large chinoiserie figures enclosed by vividly coloured indianische Blumen and birds in flight and perched on the flowers, the neck with similar flowering branches, the domed cover similarly decorated with an iron-red border of whorls and sunbursts to the rim, 38.4cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue, (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 2 March 1993, lot 269;
The Rosa Alba Collection of Meissen Porcelain
Literature:
U. Pietsch/K. Jakobsen, Frühes Meissener Porzellan (1997), no. 177
Exhibited:
Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 19 January-6 April 1997;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresdeb, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Albertinum, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen', 7 May-13 July 1997
A closely similar vase, possibly the pair to the present lot, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (accession no. C.48&A-1971).
