Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 89*
Two Meissen circular stands, circa 1725-30
9 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £37,750 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Two Meissen circular stands, circa 1725-30
Each with a circular medallion in the centre of chrysanthemum heads reserved against an iron-red foliate ground, enclosed by a broad band of gilt and Böttger-lustre scroll- and strapwork enclosing diamond-shaped trellis panels, the rims with four shaped oval panels painted with chinoiserie scenes, each within a gilt scrollwork cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple and iron-red scrollwork, separated by oval gilt and Böttger-lustre medallions enclosed by foliate scrollwork, the reverse with branches of indianische Blumen, 21.7cm diam., crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue (minor stacking wear to gilding) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer Collection, Berlin;
Dr. Fritz Mannheimer Collection, Amsterdam (acquired from the above ca. 1938);
Sold by Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14-21 October 1952, lots 339b and 339d;
Edmond de Rothschild Collection (anon. sales Christie's London, 28th March 1977, lot 22 (part) and 17th October 1977, lot 8 (part);
Private Collection, Switzerland (sold at Christie's London, 11 December 2007, lots 22 and 24)
Sold by agreement with the Estate of the late Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer.
