CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK AND 2 TO INSIDE OF ONE LEG, THE MOUNT LATER

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A NYMPHENBURG SILVER-MOUNTED ROCOCO POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER
CIRCA 1765, IMPRESSED SHIELD MARK AND 2 TO INSIDE OF ONE LEG, THE MOUNT LATER
The rocaille-moulded body enriched in gilding and reserved with six shaped panels, the lower part with three pierced apertures around spirally-moulded foliage centred by a pointed foliate knop, on three scroll-moulded legs enriched in purple, blue, turquoise and gilding, the rim with a silver mount, the domed cover with three pierced trellis panels divided by foliate panels below a moulded bouquet of flowers (body broken into two sections and restuck, small associated loss on underside, scroll of one foot chipped and replaced, cover with two leaves of bouquet chipped)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Prince Otto Sayn-Wittgenstein Collection, sale Helbing, Munich, 1907, lot 160 Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 663 (£68 to Chester) Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 189, no. 282, where he describes it as a pastille-burner.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Blohm Collection label 1340. attached to interior. Nymphenburg (Leipzig, 1921), Vol. I, p. 67, fig. 61 for an example then in the Bäuml Collection, Nymphenburg (stolen during the Second World War). A burner with its stand (with different decoration) is the Collection of the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. A stand with very similar decoration, possibly belonging to this burner, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. A rococo pot-pourri vase of related but different form in the Bäuml Collection is illustrated by A. Ziffer, 'Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml Catalogue (Stuttgart, 1997), p. 250, no. 735. See Friedrich Hofmann, Geschichte der Porzellan-Manufaktur.

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