Sale: 408 / Harry Beyer Collection, May 15. 2013 in Munich Lot 157

 

157
KPM Berlin
Große Bodenvase mit drei Masken (Wassergeister-Vase), 1898.
Porcelain
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,700

(incl. surcharge)
Große Bodenvase mit drei Masken (Wassergeister-Vase). 1898.
Heinecke- Porcelain.
Bottom inscribed with blue scepter mark (for KPM Berlin) as well as "R III G", "O" and "5858" (scratched). From an edition of unknown volume. Height: ca. 62 cm (24,4 in).
Bellied form over round stand. Strongly retracted neck. Lip with three lowered handles in form of strongly reliefed faces of different water spirits that emerge from the wall.

We are grateful to Claudia Tetzlaff, Archive KPM Berlin GmbH, for her kind support in cataloging this lot.

LITERATURE: Vanessa Sigalas, Das keramische Schaffen von Franz Metzner für die Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, in Keramos 213, 2011, pp. 87f. (with an excerpt with model drawings from the pattern book of the KPM for the vase 5858).

Called up: ca. 15.18 h +/- 20 min.




157
KPM Berlin
Große Bodenvase mit drei Masken (Wassergeister-Vase), 1898.
Porcelain
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,700

(incl. surcharge)