CIRCA 1745

Details

A Meissen tapering baluster brush-handle from the Glücksburg toilet-service
Circa 1745
Painted with four slender panels of figures at discussion by statues and urns in wooded landscapes divided by gilt panels of husks and flowerheads flanked by scrolling foliage, the top with fluted knop finial, the handle filled with stiff bristles (broken through finial and restored, some minor wear to gilding)
The handle 3½ in. (9 cm.) long

Provenance

Robert von Hirsch Collection
Anon., sale Sotheby's Zürich, 21st November 1990, lot 73

Literature

Hermann Jedding, 'Eine Meissener Toilette-Garnitur in Schloss Glücksburg', Keramos No. 130, October 1990, p. 10, pl. 12.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This forms part the extensive toilet service possibly supplied to the Grand Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, although it is also possible that the service could have been in the possession of the Kings of Denmark. Dr. Jedding discusses this possibilty in his article (ibid. [October 1990], pp. 3-15), as Schloss Glücksburg was in the possession of the Danish throne before 1871, when it came into the possession of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein as a result of the German-Danish war. The Duke brought furnishings from Schloss Ballenstedt with him, and it is more probable that the toilet service came to the castle via the Duke. Several pieces still survive at Schloss Glücksburg, and other pieces are in the Kunstgewerbe museum in Cologne; in a Swiss private collection; formerly in the Kramarsky Collection, sale Christie's New York and a oval box offered by Sotheby's London on 5th April 2002, lot 58.

(See illustration on opposite page)

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