Lot 1
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MEISSEN PORCELAIN FROM THE KORTHAUS COLLECTION
A BÖTTGER FLARED WHITE BEAKER-VASE of tapering cylindrical form with rudimentary female mask, tasselled scroll handles and applied with scrolling fruiting vine above the stepped foot with a band of radiating stiff leaves (some minor chipping to leaves and slight footrim chips), circa 1720

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A BÖTTGER FLARED WHITE BEAKER-VASE of tapering cylindrical form with rudimentary female mask, tasselled scroll handles and applied with scrolling fruiting vine above the stepped foot with a band of radiating stiff leaves (some minor chipping to leaves and slight footrim chips), circa 1720
18cm. high
Provenance
Victor Amadeus II, King of Sardinia, delivered to him in 1725
King Umberto, former King of Italy, sale Christie's Geneva, 7 June 1968, lot 26

Lot Essay

See Ingelore Menzhausen, Böttgersteinzeug Böttgerporzellan aus der Dresdener Porzellansammlung, p. 44. no. 39 where mention is made of this vase as a gift to the King of Sardinia

Cf. Sonnemann & Wächtler, Johann Friedrich Böttger Die Erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, no. 202; see also Hermann Jedding, Meissener Porzellan des 18 Jahrhunderts, no. 29 for a pair of vases in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt-am-Main of the same form but with gilt decoration

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