This outstanding Mythological Nude Bacchante displays an enchanted facial expression. But there is a reason she worshiped the Roman God Bachus; while in Greece the Goddess Dionysus both bearers of Wine; Ectasy and Fertility. Seen in the form at Meissen modelled completely in the nude.
You can be guarrenteed of one thing fakes exist to fool buyers. But where it hits very hard at home is unwary cataloguers who take it upon themselves seeing a blue cross on a piece and assuming it has to be the real thing without checking out the facts first. Isn’t it or is it
One of the wonderful reasons to visit the auction salesroom Bonhams is being able to see a cross section of 18th through the 20th century Meissen. Particularly now when the market is very hot for the finest and rarest of Meissen with prices shooting through the roof for certain pieces how do you
Bonhams hold two 500 hundred years of European Porcelain; one sale in July the other in December. Each video illustrates a cross section of porcelain mostly displayed in cabinets.
Two Catalogues were produced for the Meissen Salesman to show to their retailers. The first edition was published in 1904 and the 2nd edition 1911. The photographic plates are in black and white. They captivate the highest quality that Meissen ever modelled with many of the items illustrated the workmanship of the Leuteritz workshop. The
In my 45 years of dealing in Meissen Porcelain often attending the major sales this year’s auction sale at Sotheby’s New York broke all other records. Rarely do the smaller objects of desire; Meissen porcelain fetch over half a million dollars. But some lots within the Oppenheimer fetched over a million dollars. Normally for Meissen
what do this pair of parrots and the pair of figures of a man and woman have in common? Few pairs of any item be it Meissen or for that matter other factories can be classified as true pairs unless both models are painted with identical colours. This is the common factor between this pair
Bonhams sale celebrating 500 years of European Ceramic Production was a sale to be proud of. What differentiated this sale was a large collection of 19th and 20th century Meissen Porcelain with more specific lots when compared to previous sales over the years. Back during the 1990’s it was the Japanese who supported the market
The following videos are a preview of the Bonhams Sale; “500 years of European Ceramics”, to be held on July 5 2021 Viewing the European Ceramics on the shelves in the warehouse in Bonhams is like the never ending story. This sale is amongst the largest of its type ever held with a vast quantity
