Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND BEAKER VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
Lot 63

A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND BEAKER VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1730, ONE WITH BLUE AR MARK, THE DECORATION OF LATER DATE

Closed19 October 2023

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A PAIR OF MEISSEN PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND BEAKER VASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1730, ONE WITH BLUE AR MARK, THE DECORATION OF LATER DATE
Each painted in the Kakiemon style with birds, large insects and flowering branches, the necks and knopped waists each with three quatrefoil reserves, together with a pair of pleated fabric shades, lacking finials
18 ¾ in. (47.6 cm.) high, the porcelain

Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main.
Forced sale to the city of Frankfurt in 1938 (inv. no. G.R.602) and transferred to the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt.
Restituted to the heirs of Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 21 April 1949.
Estate of the late Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild; Sotheby's, New York, 11 March 1950, lot 253 (as with period decoration).
Collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. Van Slyke, Baltimore; Sotheby's, New York, 26 September 1989, lot 52.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 October 1993, lot 12.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.