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Lot 40

A rare pair of Höchst small potpourri vases and covers, circa 1755

2 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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A rare pair of Höchst small potpourri vases and covers, circa 1755

Each moulded with two scrollwork cartouches painted with a polychrome landscape scene on one side and a puce camaieu landscape scene on the other, flanked by pierced panels heightened in blue and yellow, surrounded by scattered insects and flower sprays, the rims with a lambrequin pattern, the pierced covers similarly decorated and applied with rose finials, 13.8cm high, wheel marks in puce, incised I (one cover with small restuck section, minor chips) (4)

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Provenance:
Hermine Feist Collection, Berlin;
Private Collection, Berlin;
Thence by descent (anon. sale, Sotheby's Zürich, 9th December 1997);
Private Collection, Switzerland;
Restituted to the heirs of Hermine Feist 2021

Another example of the model is in the Historisches Museum, Frankfurt (illustrated in P. Stahl, Höchster Porzellan 1746-1796, 1994, p.168, no. 5.3.1).

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