Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics
Property of a Private West Coast Collector
A Meissen Beaker and Stand, Circa 1723-25
No reserve
Lot Closed
October 17, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Meissen Beaker and Stand, Circa 1723-25
decorated with underglaze-blue and Böttger-lustre rock work issuing a large branch of indianische Blumen, with a bird in flight above a fence, the underside of the stand with of indianische Blumen and insects, gilt swags at the rims, crossed swords mark in blue enamel to beaker, the stand with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue to edge of footrim, incised / mark to inside edge of footrim,
diameter of stand 4 7/8 in., 12.4 cm
A second beaker from this rare service sold several times during the 20th century, first at Kende Galleries, New York, October 12, 1946, lot 99 and Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, April 14, 1980, lot 123; and it later entered the Dr. Albert Weitnauer Collection, Zürich, offered, Christie's Geneva, November 11, 1985, lot 331; and most recently the Jahn Collection, Hamburg, sold, Lempertz Cologne, June 12, 1989, lot 73.
The waste bowl from the service was in the Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke, Baltimore, sold, Sotheby's New York, September 26, 1989, lot 24
Sotheby's Scientific Research department used noninvasive XRF for this lot to screen the green enamel for chromium, which was not detected.