Augustus Rex

Lot 104. A Meissen (Augustus Rex) porcelain royal armorial part tea and chocolate-service, 1725, blue AR marks and various drehers' marks, painted by J.G. Estimate 80,000 - GBP 120,000. Price realised GBP 262,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2019 Finely painted with fine chinoiserie scenes and the crowned cipher or crowned arms of the King of Sardinia, the arms within the insignia of the Order of the Annunciation flanked by lion supporters and martial trophies, all within gilt Laub-und... [Lire la suite]

Lot 329. An important Augustus Rex baluster vase with Chinese scenes by the Höroldt workshop, Meissen, around 1740. Estimate 28 000 €. Photo Auktionhaus Stahl Polychrome painting, gilding. The painting carried out in Höroldt's workshop. On both sides large, black-line gold cartouches with 'Laub- und Bandelwerk', inside decorated with Chinese scenes on terrestrial pedestals. In between small cartouches with Chinese scenes in purple monochrome. Finely painted flower bouquets and single flowers. Large manufactory... [Lire la suite]

Lot 330. A very rare Augustus Rex vase with bird painting by C.G. Häntzschel, Meissen, around 1745. Estimate 38 000 €. Photo Auktionhaus Stahl the painting very likely by Christian Gottlob Häntzschel (Krummenhennersdorf bei Freiberg 1709 - Meissen 1761?). Ovoid body with slim neck. On both sides painted with birds, framed by butterflies and beetles. U'glazed blue 'AR' mark. H. 35,5 cm. The painting of one of the two birds, a great spotted woodpecker, is based on the coloured copper engraving by Eleazar Albin (see:... [Lire la suite]

Augustus as Pontifex Maximus [Credit: Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme]. ROMA - Organised to mark the 2000th anniversary of his death on 19 August 14 AD, the exhibition presents the stages in the dazzling personal story of Augustus in parallel with the birth of a new historical era. The adopted son and great-nephew of Julius Caesar, Augustus was a man endowed with exceptional charisma and political acumen.  He succeeded, where even Caesar had failed, in putting an end to decades of bloody internecine... [Lire la suite]

The Delphinium Collection is a historic survival from the great era of porcelain collecting after the Second World War. It was formed by two generations of collectors: a fascinating selection of 18th century Meissen porcelain that reflects a scholarly and discerning taste. The collection ranges from Böttger stoneware and porcelain of the earliest period to French-influenced taste of the mid 18th century. It includes a number of exceptionally rare pieces, such as a two-handled jar and cover with chinoiserie decoration, of which only... [Lire la suite]

Très importante garniture de trois vases d' Augustus Rex , circa 1730 en porcelaine de Meissen. Vers 1728-1733. Photo Osenat Fontainebleau à décor polychrome d' «indianische blumen». Elle comprend un vase couvert de forme ovoïde avec deux oiseaux posés sur une branche de bambou, sur l'autre face une grue posée sur un tertre et au dessus un phénix en vol. Au col, feuillages et fleurs et à la base, trois réserves de pivoines bordées d'un filet vert. Ces réserves se détachent sur un fond de... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen 'Augustus Rex' hexagonal  vase and cover, the porcelain circa 1730, the decoration perhaps somewhat later - Photo Sotheby's the sides painted in Kakiemon style with black cranes perched among peonies, alternating with flowering peony bushes, the shoulders and cover with three reserves of phoenix on a broad tomato-red ground band of scrolling lotus, the neck with a key-fret border, 'underglaze' blue AR mark overpainted in blue and black enamel with a peony flowerhead, blue enamel caduceus mark; 32cm, 12 1/2 in... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen Augustus Rex yellow-ground baluster vase, circa 1725. Photo Sotheby's painted with two cartouches of single chinoiserie figures in gardens within dotted gilt borders, the neck with a broad band of gilt laub-und-bandelwerk,  underglaze blue AR mark. Estimate 8,000-12,000 GBP  PROVENANCE: Christie's Geneva, 14 November 1988, lot 108 Sotheby's. The Collection of Giovanni and Gabriella Barilla, Londres | 14 mars 2012

A Meissen Augustus Rex bottle vase, circa 1730. Photo Sotheby's the globular body and slender neck brilliantly painted probably by Adam Friederich von Lôwenfinck, with a bird perched among indianische Blumen, the collar with a blue flower among iron-red foliage, underglaze blue AR monogram mark and Dreher's mark of Rehschuh; 22cm, 8 5/8 in high. Estimate 20,000-30,000 GBP PROVENANCE: With Rudolf Just, PragueChristie's Gevena, 13 May 1985, lot 158 Sotheby's. The Collection of... [Lire la suite]

The stunning figure of Hercules is based on the famous Antique sculpture of the Farnese Hercules, now in the Archaeological Museum in Naples FLORENCE.- A very rare and important 82cm high porcelain figure of Hercules created at the Doccia factory in Tuscany in 1753-55 sold for £657,250 last week in Bonhams Fine European Ceramics auction, setting a new world record pirce for Doccia porcelain at auction. It was the first time that a Doccia figure of this size had come to auction and the piece far exceeded its pre-sale estimate of... [Lire la suite]