Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 245

A Meissen double-handed beaker, circa 1723-24

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

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our European Ceramics specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A Meissen double-handed beaker, circa 1723-24

Each side painted by J.G. Höroldt with a Chinoiserie scene, one with a figure carrying a tray, the other with a figure mixing something in a flask in an elaborate landscape, within a gilt scrollwork quatrelobe cartouche filled with Böttger lustre and edged with purple and iron-red scrolls, a gilt scroll- and strapwork border to the inside rim, 8.2cm high, gilt numeral 2., traces of a painted red inventory or collector's number inside footrim (very minor flaking to gilt rim)

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York;
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 26 May 1980, lot 380 (four beakers);
Anon. sale, Christie's Geneva, 12 November 1989, lot 96

Literature:
Carl C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection vol. IV (1970), p. 155, no. 58D;
Ulrich Pietsch, Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775 (1996), pp. 104-105, no. 82

Exhibited:
New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, 'Johann Gregorius Höroldt 1696-1775', 4 August-30 October 1996, no. 82

Additional information

Bid now on these items