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A very rare early Meissen beaker, circa 1713-15

6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A very rare early Meissen beaker, circa 1713-15

Of delicate campana shape and thinly-potted, decorated in the workshop of George Funcke, Dresden, with bands of gilt foliate scrollwork below the rim and just above the footrim, the full interior in brightly burnished gold, 7.3cm high, painted inventory number DK 5638 in green

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Provenance:
Lobkowicz Collection, Prague (bears paper inventory label for Lobkowicz Palace, Vlašská 17, Praha 1);

The Dresden goldsmith, George Funcke, decorated porcelain for the Meissen manufactory from May 1713 in enamel colours as well as silver and gold in his Dresden workshop. He was responsible for the gilt cartouches on pieces painted in the Höroldt workshop during the first half of the 1720s. The rare flared form of this beaker suggests that it belongs to the earliest production in porcelain. The branches issuing from the top of the upper gold band are also very unusual; similar branches - perhaps coral - are on a coffee pot decorated in the Funcke worshop in the Ludwig Collection (R. Hanemann (ed.), Goldchinesen und Indianische Blumen (2010), no. 19).

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