AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN WHITE SAKE BOTTLE CIRCA 1715-20
Auction Closed
April 16, 08:57 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
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THE COLLECTION OF MELINDA AND PAUL SULLIVAN
AN EARLY MEISSEN PORCELAIN WHITE SAKE BOTTLE
CIRCA 1715-20
of square-section with a bulbous body applied in low relief with alternating satyr masks and small bouquets of flowers, on a stepped square foot, the slender neck with a band of husks
height 7⅝ in.
19.4 cm
The Collection of the Royal House of Saxony
Probably moved to Schloss Moritzburg, Saxony, circa 1925 (bearing Schloss Moritzburg red-lacquered inventory number I.A. 10 a.)
Confiscated in 1945 and incorporated into the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (bearing Porzellansammlung im Zwinger inventory number P.E. 2875)
Restituted to the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie)
Pairs of bottles of this form were in the sales from the Johanneum in Dresden, Rudolph Lepke's, Berlin, October 12-14, 1920, lots 119 and 120. A pair with traces of cold decoration remain in the State Collection in the Zwinger, Dresden, inv. nos. PE 2872 and PE2873 a, b, and is illustrated in Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz (ed.), Triumph of the Crossed Swords, Dresden, 2010, p. 171, cat. no. 15. Another is in the Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1974.356.499.