Sebastian Kuhn
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A Meissen lobed beaker and cover from the toilette service in Schloss Glücksburg, circa 1740-45
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£4,000 - £5,000
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A Meissen lobed beaker and cover from the toilette service in Schloss Glücksburg, circa 1740-45
Finely painted with panels depicting figures in European landscape, harbour and palace settings, above gilt shell motifs, alternating with gilt ground panels reserved with flowers flanked by scrollwork, the cover similarly decorated and applied with a branch handle with flowers and leaves, 13.5cm high, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue (small restored haircrack, restoration to finial) (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Private Collection, Switzerland (sold at Galerie Jürg Stuker, Bern, 16 November 1978, lot 228);
Max Hoffmann Collection, Basel (sold at Christie's London, 21 November 2005, lot 45)
The present lot was part of an extensive and lavishly decorated toilette service, now in Schloss Glücksburg, whose original owner is unknown, though it may have been in the possession of the Kings of Denmark or the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; see H. Jedding, Eine Meißener Toilette-Garnitur in Schloss Glücksburg, in Keramos 130 (1990), pp. 3-16. Another piece of the toilette service was in the Brigitte Britzke Collection, sold in these rooms, 14 December 2016, lot 101.