
Sophie von der Goltz
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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).