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Lot 96
  • 96

A Böttger porcelain white beaker vase, circa 1720

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • ceramic
  • 18cm, 7 1/4 in high
of trumpet form, applied with two human masks separating branches of flowering vine, the foot with a band of stiff acanthus leaves

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

Literature

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.

Condition

a few minor losses to applied leaves and minor footrim chip
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