Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 167
A Meissen Augustus Rex flared beaker vase, circa 1730
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £22,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen Augustus Rex flared beaker vase, circa 1730
Painted in Kakiemon style in polychrome enamels embellished in gilding with a landscape vignette depicting a stork-like bird flanked by fences with large branches of flowering indianische Blumen issuing from rockwork to its right and a smaller spray of flowers to the left, two birds and a butterfly in flight overhead, the lower body painted with four lappets, each with a chrysanthemum on an iron-red ground reserved with scrolling foliage, triangular green scale-ground panels between them, gilt band above footrim, 34.6cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (restoration to top section)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The collection of the late S.G. Brooksbank, London
A similar Augustus Rex vase, presumably from the same garniture as the present lot, is in the British Museum (J. Ayres et al., Porcelain for Palaces (1990), no. 186).
