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26 juin 2019

A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725

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Lot 14. A very rare Meissen Augustus Rex vase, circa 1725; 36.5cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue. Estimate £ 30,000 - 50,000  (€ 34,000 - 56,000)Unsold. © Bonhams

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 (restored).

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

Note: 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.

Bonhams. Important Meissen Porcelain from a Private Collection, Part II, 2 Jul 2019, 13:00 BST, London, New Bond Street

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