A Böttger porcelain white beaker vase, circa 1720. Photo Sotheby's

of trumpet form, applied with two human masks separating branches of flowering vine, the foot with a band of stiff acanthus leaves; 18cm, 7 1/4 in high. Estimate 20,000-30,000 GBP

PROVENANCE: Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, delivered to him in 1725.
King Umberto, former King of Italy, sale Christie's Geneva, 7 June 1968, lot 26
The Korthaus Collection, Christie's 21 September 1992, lot 1

LITTERATURE: Ingelore Menzhausen, Böttgersteinzeug Böttgerporzellan aus der Dresdener Porzellansammlung, p. 44, no. 39
Meissen la decouverte de la porcelaine europeenne en Saxe, JF Bootger, 1709-1736, Paris, 1982, Fig. 202.

Sotheby's. The Collection of Giovanni and Gabriella Barilla. Londres | 14 mars 2012