20 Mar 2013
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Delphinium Collection: a private British collection of 18th century Meissen
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The Delphinium Collection: a private British collection of 18th century Meissen
Back to auction 21048
A rare Meissen Augustus Rex bottle vase, circa 1730
Painted in an extended Kakiemon palette with flowering branches of indianische Blumen with a bird perched on one branch, the neck with scattered blooms below a band of red foliage reserved with two blue and yellow flower heads, 19cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark + within a circle
Sold for
£115,250
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The Property of Albert Rofe, Esq., sold by Sotheby's London, 7 July 1959, lot 55
A similar vase in the David Collection, Copenhagen, is published by Erik Lassen, Die Sammlung David Meissen Porzellan (1985), no. 48.
Category: Decorative Arts / European Ceramics
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