A Sorgenthal porcelain solitaire with snake-form handles - image-1
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Lot 31 Dα

A Sorgenthal porcelain solitaire with snake-form handles

Auction 1125 - overview Berlin
07.11.2018, 18:00 - The Twinight Collection I
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 8.125 € (incl. premium)
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A Sorgenthal porcelain solitaire with snake-form handles

Comprising an oval tray with a snake forming the rim, two baluster-form covered jugs entwined with snakes, a sugar bowl formed as a kantharos, one teacup with a snake handle and one saucer. All pieces decorated with sunburst motifs in burnished gold. The tray centred by a depiction of a winged putti in a rhombus. Blue bindenschild mark, year letters 807 and 808, potter's mark P for Anton Payer and 39, etc. One lid replaced. Tray W 32.5, jug H 16.5 cm.
Vienna, Sorgenthal manufactory, 1808.

Literature

Wittwer (ed.), Raffinesse & Eleganz, Munich 2007, no. 45.

Exhibitions

Raffinesse & Eleganz - Königliche Porzellane des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts aus einer amerikanischen Privatsammlung, Berlin, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Schloss Charlottenburg, 28th July - 4th November 2007
Die Sammlung Cohen. Porzellane der grossen Manufakturen 1800 - 1840. Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, 16th November 2007 - 11th February 2008
Refinement & Elegance - Early 19th-Century Royal Porcelain from an American private collection, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 9th September 2008 - 19th April 2009