Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 153
A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £35,250 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
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)
Footnotes
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.
