Lot 192. A Meissen oval tureen and cover, circa 1735-45, 32.5cm, 12 3/4 in. across handles. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000. Photo: Sotheby's. 

of baroque form after a model by J. J. Kändler, the bowl with twin female mask and feather handles, well painted with large reserves of figures beside a large watermill or a fortified ruin, within elaborate black enamel, gilt and Böttger-lustre borders, framed by long sprigs of Kakiemon flowers, the domed cover with tall gilt acanthus knop and four similar reserves, one showing ice-skaters and windmills in a Dutch winter scene, within a broad gilt key-fret border enclosing small landscape reserves in purple camaieu, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Dreher's mark of four dots for Johann Elias Grund Senior, Quantité: 2

Provenance: Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer, Dresden;
By descent to their sons Viktor, Herbert and Ralph von Klemperer;
Confiscated from the above by the Staatspolizeileitstelle Dresden at the Klemperer-Villa on Tiergartenstraße, Dresden in 1939/1940;
Deposited with the Staatliche Porzellangalerie Dresden (inv. no. 208);
Stored by the Staatliche Porzellangalerie Dresden at Schloß Rammenau from January 1943 (crate Kl. P. Nr. 18);
Moved to Schloß Rotschönberg on the 16th March 1945, where subsequently lost between 1945 and 1946;
The Maurice de Rothschild Collection, his (anon.) sale, Christie's London, 28th March 1977, lot 85;
With Kunsthandel Dr. Dagmar Holz, Königswinter.

This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the Estate of the late owner and the heirs of Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer.

Bibliography: L. Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellansammlung Gustav Klemperer, privately printed, Dresden 1928, no. 208, pl. 25.

Note: The form was modelled by J. J. Kändler in August 1733, and was often associated with the most sumptuous decoration; it was, for example, used for the service made for Frederick V of Sweden. The decoration here has many parallels with that of the Christie-Miller service, of circa 1740.

The Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer collection was, according to W.B. Honey, European Ceramic Art, 'Perhaps the finest published collection of Meissen porcelain'. It was formed between the mid-1890s and Gustav's death on 27th December 1926.

The collection was confiscated by the Nazis in 1938, and stored in Dresden throughout the war. Most of the collection was subsequently destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. Remaining pieces from the collection were sold at Christie's, London, 3rd September 1991, lots 151-175, and at Bonhams, London, 8th December 2010, lots 35-70.

Other examples of this form were included in renowned collections contemporary with that of the von Klemperers, one from the C. H. Fischer Collection, Dresden, sold by J.M. Heberle, Cologne, 22-25th October 1906, lot 581; subsequently sold at Sotheby's Zurich, 9th December 1997, lot 28; the Professor Dr. Ludwig Darmstädter Collection, Berlin, sold by Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 24-26th March 1925, lot 101; the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, illustrated in the collection catalogue, 1971, p.44, no.6. Two painted with battle scenes are in the Bavarian National Museum, Munich, Inv. nr. Ker 1724- Ker 1727, Ker 1710-Ker 1712, published by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, 1966, no. 638 and 642.

Sotheby's. From Earth to Fire, Londres, 04 mai 2017, 10:30 AM